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A Historical Review of Research on Aleocharinae of the Arctic and Subarctic Ecoregions of North America and an Overview of the Study Region

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A Faunal Review of Aleocharine Beetles in the Rapidly Changing Arctic and Subarctic Regions of North America (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)

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The study region, the Nearctic Arctic and Subarctic, is delimited to include the ecoregions 1–4 and 6.1 as defined by CEC (Terrestrial ecoregions – Level II ecoregions, http://www.cec.org/north-american-environmental-atlas/terrestrial-ecoregions-level-ii/, 2018). This encompasses the tundra, taiga forests and the lowlands of Alaska (United States) and all Canadian provinces except the Maritimes. Entire Labrador, including its better-collected and milder, coastal part (ecoregion 5.1) was included in the study region for simplicity, though records from ecoregion 5.1 were not included in the historical review or faunal analysis of Chap. 6. Unlike other regions of North America, taxonomic research on arctic and subarctic aleocharines largely began relatively recently. Thus far (including the present study) 1404 geographically distinct species-level collection records have been published, the majority of which were contributed in four significant events.

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  1. Laurentian Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Quebec City, QC, Canada

    Jan Klimaszewski & Caroline Bourdon

  2. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Adam Brunke & Anthony Davies

  3. University of Alaska Museum, Fairbanks, AK, USA

    Derek S. Sikes

  4. Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

    Mikko Pentinsaari

  5. Whitehorse, YT, Canada

    Benoit Godin

  6. Charters Settlement, NB, Canada

    Reginald P. Webster

  7. Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA

    Alfred F. Newton

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Klimaszewski, J. et al. (2021). A Historical Review of Research on Aleocharinae of the Arctic and Subarctic Ecoregions of North America and an Overview of the Study Region. In: A Faunal Review of Aleocharine Beetles in the Rapidly Changing Arctic and Subarctic Regions of North America (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68191-3_2

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