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Springtails (Hexapoda, Collembola) of Tundra Landscapes of the Kola Peninsula

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A quantitative study of collembolan assemblages on the Barents Sea coast of the Kola Peninsula was performed. Altogether, 104 collembolan species of 55 genera and 16 families were found. Analysis of the faunal composition revealed its high similarity to that of the faunas of the neighboring regions of Norway as well as a marked decline in species richness as compared to the Siberian analogues. A high share of littoral forms with increased vagility and the predominance of species with “southern” (= boreal) and “western” distribution patterns are the main characteristics of the fauna studied; only a few true arctic forms were found, always with low abundance and occurrence levels. Most of the studied collembolan assemblages are characterized by the dominance of a few species which inhabit a part of or the entire range of plant communities. As a result, collembolan assemblages under various types of vegetation cover in different landscape elements often show only insignificant differences.

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Original Russian Text © A.B. Babenko, 2012, published in Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 2012, Vol. 91, No. 4, pp. 411–427.

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Babenko, A.B. Springtails (Hexapoda, Collembola) of Tundra Landscapes of the Kola Peninsula. Entmol. Rev. 92, 497–515 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873812050028

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