Invasive Vaucheria aff. compacta (Xanthophyceae) and its distribution over a high Arctic tidal flat in Svalbard

0572139 - BÚ 2024 RIV NL eng J - Journal Article
Elster, Josef - Souquieres, C.-E. - Jadrná, I. - Škaloud, P. - Søreide, J. E. - Kvíderová, Jana
Invasive Vaucheria aff. compacta (Xanthophyceae) and its distribution over a high Arctic tidal flat in Svalbard.
Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science. Roč. 281, FEB 5 2023 (2023), č. článku 108206. ISSN 0272-7714. E-ISSN 1096-0015
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT LTAIN19139; GA ČR(CZ) GF22-08680L
Institutional support: RVO:67985939
Keywords : Arctic coastal ecolog * tidal flat * invasive Vaucheria aff. compacta
OECD category: Ecology
Impact factor: 2.8, year: 2022
Method of publishing: Limited access
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2022.108206

The high Arctic Svalbard tidal flat ecosystem is impacted by global warming, which could allow invasion by additional species with changes in the environment supporting their growth. The transport of additional species to Svalbard could be aided by an increase in the numbers of people traveling there. Anthropogenic activities related with global warming create opportunities for organisms to move across previously isolated regions, thus advancing biotic homogenization and extinctions. Our study focused on essential quantitative and qualitative information about the occurrence of widespread mats of the invasive siphonaceous yellow-green alga Vaucheria aff. compacta in the Adventfjorden tidal flat. We outline the present ecological state of V. aff. compacta mats (land cover estimation) and discuss the origin and future development of this microphytobenthic community.
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0342963