EXCEPTIONAL TARDIGRADE‐DOMINATED ECOSYSTEMS IN ELLSWORTH LAND, ANTARCTICA

By Peter Convey, S. McInnes. 2005

154 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. Peter Convey
2. D. Wall
3. E. Ayres
4. P. Pugh
5. Uffe N. Nielsen
6. A. Vanreusel
7. Francesco Frati
8. K. Newsham

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Peter Convey
2. D. Wall
3. E. Ayres
4. R. Bardgett
5. Uffe N. Nielsen
6. P. Pugh
7. K. Newsham
8. A. Vanreusel

Citations in the corpus

• Soil biodiversity and carbon cycling: a review and synthesis of studies examining diversity–function relationships (2011, background): “…to contain extremely low extents of soil biotic diversity, with faunal communities typically consisting of various combinations of up to three taxa (tardigrades, rotifers and nematodes) and less than five species (Freckman & Virginia, 1997; Convey & McInnes, 2005; Adams et al., 2006; Wall, 2007).”
• Co-variation in soil biodiversity and biogeochemistry in northern and southern Victoria Land, Antarctica (2006, background): “Freeliving soil nematodes and tardigrades are the most abundant and widely distributed animals in continental Antarctica (Freckman & Virginia 1997, Petz 1997, Sinclair 2001, Convey & Wynn-Williams 2002, Sohlenius et al. 2004, Convey & McInnes 2005, Adams et al. 2006).”
• Surviving out in the cold: Antarctic endemic invertebrates and their refugia (2008, background): “Identifying such refugia has proved to be particularly difficult at higher (70+ S) latitudes (Convey & Smith, 1997; Clarke, 2003), where the fauna is only represented by poorly documented microfaunal nematodes, rotifers and tardigrades (Convey & McInnes, 2005).”
• Decline in a dominant invertebrate species contributes to altered carbon cycling in a low‐diversity soil ecosystem (2008, background): “Climate change in the Antarctic provides opportunity to evaluate the influences of climate variation on the structure and functioning of whole soil communities, where soil food webs are simple relative to temperate or even many Arctic ecosystems (Wall & Virginia, 1999; Convey & McInnes, 2005).”
• Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review (2018, background): “tardigrades, rotifers are widely found in the coastal areas of Antarctica (Convey and McInnes 2005).”
• Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity in a changing world (2011, background): “Antarctica hosts extremely simple faunal communities, some of which even lack the otherwise ubiquitous nematode worms (Freckman and Virginia 1997; Convey and McInnes 2005).”
• Terrestrial biodiversity in Antarctica - recent advances and future challenges (2010, background): “Some of the simplest faunal communities on the planet are found on the Antarctic continent (Convey and McInnes, 2005; Freckman and Virginia, 1997).”
• Diversity and distribution of Victoria Land biota (2006, result): “These studies give the greatest recorded species diversity for this region (seven species; for comparison, approximately 18 tardigrade taxa have been reported across the continental Antarctic (Convey and McInnes, 2005)), but comparable data are lacking from elsewhere.”