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Soil animal microhabitat temperatures in Svalbard (High Arctic) and on the Antarctic peninusula

SND-ID: SND 1107

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Stephen Coulson - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Anna Sjöblom - Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences

Peter Convey - British Antarctic Survey

Description

Annual temperature data from microhabitats inhabited by soil invertebrates at diverse locations in Svalbard (European High Arctic) and on the Antarctic peninsula. This data are recorded at hour intervals and span several years providing detailed temperature information during all four seasons. Temperatures were recorded in the microhabitat, a depth of c. 5 to 10mm. They can be used to understand the actual temperatures encountered by soil organisms and how these microhabitat temperatures differ from the air temperatures recorded by meteorological stations or active layer temperatures determined by permafrost stations.
They are intented to be used as example data and are particularly useful for sites where year round monitoring is not possible.

Language

English

Research principal, contributors, and funding

Research principal

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Responsible department/unit

the Swedish Species Information Centre

Funding 1

  • Funding agency: The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)

Funding 2

  • Funding agency: Swedish Research Council

Funding 3

  • Funding agency: The Research Council of Norway
  • Funding agency's reference number: 6172/S30
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Method and time period

Time period(s) investigated

2007 – 2014

Geographic coverage

Geographic spread

Geographic location: Antarctica, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Arctic

Topic and keywords

Research area

Natural Sciences, Earth and Related Environmental Sciences, Biological Sciences (The Swedish standard of fields of research 2011)
Biota, Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere (INSPIRE topic categories)

Keywords

arctic tundra, animals/invertebrates, antarctica, arctic region, bio-geographical regions, habitats and biotopes, meteorological geographical features, species distribution, microhabitats

Publications

Convey, P., Coulson S.J., Worland M.R. and Sjöblom A. (2018) Implications of annual and shorter term temperature patterns and variation in the surface levels of polar soils for terrestrial biota. Polar Biology. 41:1587-1605. doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2299-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00300-018-2299-0

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Soil animal microhabitat temperatures in Svalbard (High Arctic) and on the Antarctic peninusula

Description

Arctic
Temperatures were recorded at a depth of approximately 1 cm using Tinytag dataloggers, TGP-4020 (Gemini, Chichester, West Sussex, U.K.) fitted with PB-5001, PB-5009, or PB-5006 external thermistor probes, except for the Small temporary and Large permanent ponds (sites O and P) where
TG-4100 submersible loggers were deployed at approximately 10 cm water depth. For logger and probe locations see Online Resource 1. Care was taken to avoid exposing the sensors to direct insolation. Sampling i

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Citation

Stephen Coulson, Anna Sjöblom, Peter Convey. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2019). Soil animal microhabitat temperatures in Svalbard (High Arctic) and on the Antarctic peninusula. Swedish National Data Service. Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.5878/cf6b-9p34

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Numeric

Creator/Principal investigator(s)

Stephen Coulson - Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Anna Sjöblom - Uppsala University, Department of Earth Sciences

Peter Convey - British Antarctic Survey

Time period(s) investigated

2007 – 2014

Variables

1

Published: 2019-09-18