Tardigrade distribution in soils of high Arctic habitats
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/60076658:12310/24:43908551
Result on the web
<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11386" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.11386</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.11386" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.11386</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Tardigrade distribution in soils of high Arctic habitats
Original language description
Tardigrades are omnipresent microfauna with scarce record on their ecology in soils. Here, we investigated soil inhabiting tardigrade communities in five contrasting polar habitats, evaluating their abundance, diversity, species richness, and species composition. Moreover, we measured selected soil physico-chemical properties to find the drivers of tardigrade distribution among these habitats. In spite of reported tardigrade viability in extreme conditions, glacier forelands represented a habitat almost devoid of tardigrades. Even dry and wet tundra with soil developing for over more than 10 000 years held low abundances compared to usual numbers of tardigrades in temperate habitats. Polar habitats also differ in species composition, with Diaforobiotus islandicus being typical species for dry and Hypsibius exemplaris for wet tundra. Overall, tardigrade abundance was affected by the content of nutrients as well as physical properties of soil, i.e. content of total nitrogen (TN), total organic carbon (TOC), stoniness, soil texture and the water holding capacity (WHC). While diversity and species composition were significantly related to soil physical properties such as the bulk density (BD), soil texture, stoniness, and WHC. Physical structure of environment was, therefore, an important predictor of tardigrade distribution in polar habitats. Since many studies failed to identify significant determinants of tardigrade distribution, we encourage scientists to include physical properties of tardigrade habitats as explanatory variables in their studies.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10618 - Ecology
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ecology and Evolution
ISSN
2045-7758
e-ISSN
2045-7758
Volume of the periodical
14
Issue of the periodical within the volume
7
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
11
Pages from-to
e11386
UT code for WoS article
001261035000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85197431105