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Peculiarities of the Collembolan Fauna and Assemblages (Hexapoda, Collembola) of Eastern Yamal

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Collembolan assemblages were surveyed in the vicinity of Seyakha, a settlement located on the banks of the Ob Bay in the central part of the Yamal Peninsula. A total of 104 collembolan species from 39 genera and 13 families were found in 13 different plant associations reflecting the vegetation diversity of this tundra region. Our analysis indicates that this local fauna is somewhat impoverished as compared with the Central Siberian subzonal analogues. At the same time, the collembolan assemblages in most plant associations of the studied part of the Yamal Peninsula show no noticeable features that would clearly differentiate them from similar complexes in other regions of the southern tundra belt. Both the composition and structure of the collembolan assemblages studied are quite consistent with their zonal position. The location of the Yamal Peninsula between Europe and Asia is reflected only in the presence of a few West Palaearctic species in the local collembolan fauna; however, none of these species plays a significant role in any of the studied assemblages.

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  1. The form with 33/022-3/33342 dorsal pseudocelli (= P. boedvarssoni Pomorski, 1993) is common in the study area, while the typical P. pjasinae with 2 + 2 pso on the posterior head surface is relatively rare. These species are considered synonymous at www.collembola.org, based on the personal opinion of J. Pomorski (2002, in litt.), but the synonymy has not been formally published.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Field research in Yamal was carried out with support of the Department of External Relations of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region under an agreement with the Russian Center for Arctic Development (Salekhard), and we express our gratitude to both the organization as a whole and personally to V.G. Shcherbakova, A.S. Bronnikov, and I.S. Styazhkin. We are also grateful to employees of the local weather station, Vitaly and Irina Zharkov, who made our stay in Seyakha so comfortable, and to our colleagues A.A. Nekhaeva and M.S. Bizin, who helped us with the fieldwork.

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Babenko, A.B., Antipova, M.D. Peculiarities of the Collembolan Fauna and Assemblages (Hexapoda, Collembola) of Eastern Yamal. Entmol. Rev. 102, 639–657 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873822050074

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