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Population Density and Species Composition of Moss-living Tardigrades in a Boreo-nemoral Forest by K. Ingemar Jönsson is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Population Density and Species Composition of Moss-living Tardigrades in a Boreo-nemoral Forest about?
This study investigates for the first time the tardigrade fauna in a variety of different mosses from a coniferous forest and an adjacent clear‐cut area in southern Sweden. Tardigrades were found in a majority of the samples. Sixteen species were recorded, of which the cosmopolitan species __Macrobiotus hufelandi__ was the far most common. Some mosses, particularly species with “wefts” growth form, contained more tardigrades than other mosses, indicating that growth form may have an impact on tardigrade abundance. Mosses of the same species collected from a forest and from a clear‐cut, respectively, did not show a general trend in the overall abundance of tardigrades, but the forest tended to contain more species. Five species of tardigrades (__Murrayon dianae, Isohypsibius sattleri, Platicrista angustata, Diphascon belgicae__ and __Diphascon pingue__) never previously reported from Sweden were recorded.
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- Author
- K. Ingemar Jönsson
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0906-7590)
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)