Testing the ‘addition and persistence model’ of invertebrate succession in a subalpine glacier-foreland chronosequence: Fåbergstølsbreen, southern Norway

Invertebrate primary succession is investigated across a chronosequence in the subalpine (birch woodland) zone at Fåbergstølsbreen using pitfall traps. Presence and abundance of taxa, functional groups and communities are examined using a geo-ecological approach including mapping, graphical analysis...

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Published in:Holocene (Sevenoaks) 2013-08, Vol.23 (8), p.1151-1162
Main Authors: Vater, Amber E, Matthews, John A
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:Invertebrate primary succession is investigated across a chronosequence in the subalpine (birch woodland) zone at Fåbergstølsbreen using pitfall traps. Presence and abundance of taxa, functional groups and communities are examined using a geo-ecological approach including mapping, graphical analysis, two-way indicator species analysis (TWINSPAN) and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMS). Twenty-nine of the 67 recorded taxa, and 14 of the 37 epigeal (surface active) taxa colonize terrain deglacierized for
ISSN:0959-6836
1477-0911
DOI:10.1177/0959683613483623