On the terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate diversity of the High Arctic archipelago of Svalbard: a revised species inventory and synopsis of the community composition
2024
Coulson, Stephen J. | Bartlett, Jesamine | Bostrom, Sven | E. Brittain, John | S. Christoffersen, Kirsten | Convey, Peter | de Smet, Willem H. | Dózsa-Farkas, Klára | Ekrem, Torbjørn | Fjellberg, Arne | Füreder, Leopold | Gillespie, Mark | Gustafsson, Daniel | Gwiazdowicz, Dariusz, J | Kaczmarek, Łukasz | Kolicka, Malgorzata | Laniecki, Ronald | M. Moerman, Tirza | Seniczak, Stanisław | Seniczak, Anna | Simon, Jean-Christophe | Stur, Elisabeth | E. E. Søli, Geir | Wieczorek, Karina | Zawierucha, Krzysztof | Zmudczyńska-Skarbek, Katarzyna | The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) | Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM) | University of Oslo (UiO) | University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH) | University of Johannesburg [South Africa] (UJ) | University of Antwerp (UA) | Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) | Norwegian University of Science and Technology [Trondheim] (NTNU) ; Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) | Universität Innsbruck [Innsbruck] = University of Innsbruck | Western Norway University of Applied Sciences | Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu = Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (UAM) | Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) | Uniwersytet Kazimierza Wielkiego | Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences - Høgskolen i Innlandet | Institut de Génétique, Environnement et Protection des Plantes (IGEPP) ; Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro Rennes Angers ; Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro) | University of Silesia in Katowice | University of Gdańsk (UG) | JEB acknowledges funding from The Svalbard Environmental Protection Fund and the Norwegian Environment Agency. PC is supported by NERC core funding to the BAS Biodiversity, Evolution and Adaptation Team. KSC is supported from internal funding by University of Copenhagen and the University Centre in Svalbard. DRG is supported by the Pearl River Talent Recruitment Program of Guangdong Province (Grant 2019QN01N968) and the the Foreign Young Talent Plan (QN20200130012). TMM is supported by the Research Council of Norway (project number 315454) and a PhD grant provided by NMBU.
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Show more [+] Less [-]English. Arctic terrestrial invertebrate biodiversity is generally poorly known, but the archipelago of Svalbard has one of the most up-to-date inventories of its terrestrial and freshwater faunas of any Arctic region, offering a baseline for long term monitoring of invertebrate communities in space and time. Since the most recent review of the Svalbard invertebrate fauna was produced in 2014, knowledge of this fauna has developed and this inventory is here critically revised and updated. Our aims are (1) to critically review the inventory based on current taxonomic knowledge, (2) publish the complete species inventory, including cross-referencing to the relevant publications, in an open access data archive (GBIF), and (3) highlight the particular advantages that working in Svalbard may bring for scientists working on terrestrial, freshwater, and cryospheric environments. The inventory contains a total 1091 valid species names or interim names. A gap analysis in the Barcode of Life Data Systems reveals that 50% of the species currently documented from Svalbard lack COI (Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1) barcode reference sequences in this database. Gaps in our knowledge of the Svalbard fauna and how these may be resolved are discussed.
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