Taxonomic notes on coprophilous fungi of the Arctic: Churchill, Resolute Bay, and Devon Island

1982 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 1115-1125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Booth
Keyword(s):  
Polar Bear ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Fox ◽  
Rock Ptarmigan ◽  
Coprophilous Fungi ◽  
Snow Goose ◽  
Devon Island ◽  
Resolute Bay ◽  
Arctic Hare ◽  
Musk Ox

Various dung substrates including that of arctic fox, arctic hare, arctic wolf, lemming, musk-ox, polar bear, rock ptarmigan, and snow goose were collected from the Churchill region, Resolute Bay region, Scogan Lowland, Sverdrup Lowland, Truelove Lowland, and Truelove Valley. These collections were incubated and surveyed for coprophilous fungi. Of 20 taxa recorded Ascobolus stictoideus, Cheilymenia coprinaria, Coprobia granulata, Lilliputia rufula, Sporormiella bipartis, Sporormiella dubia, Sporormiella minima, Sporormiella septenaria, and a Zopfiella sp. are first reports for Arctic sites. Taxonomic problems are discussed in some detail for Sporormiella intermedia and Thelebolus polysporous.

Mammals of central North Greenland

Polar Record ◽  
1989 ◽  
Vol 25 (152) ◽  
pp. 43-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Bennike ◽  
A. K. Higgins ◽  
M. Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Arctic Ocean ◽  
Polar Bear ◽  
Ringed Seal ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Fox ◽  
Bearded Seal ◽  
The Arctic Ocean ◽  
Arctic Hare ◽  
Musk Ox ◽  
North Greenland

AbstractCentral North Greenland, an uninhabited and rarely visited region bordering the Arctic Ocean, supports arctic hare, collared lemming, wolf, arctic fox, polar bear, stoat, ringed seal and musk ox. Their distribution and abundance were noted during Geological Survey of Greenland expeditions in 1984–85, which visited virtually all land areas in the region, including nunataks and islands. Bones of reindeer, bearded seal and narwhal were also found. Ringed seal and reindeer are known to have been present in the region by the early Holocene.

Trichinella nativa in Iceland: an example of Trichinella dispersion in a frigid zone

2009 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Skírnisson ◽  
G. Marucci ◽  
E. Pozio
Keyword(s):  
Host Species ◽  
Polar Bear ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Fox ◽  
Polar Bears ◽  
Alopex Lagopus ◽  
Zoonotic Pathogen ◽  
Arctic Regions ◽  
Epidemiological Features ◽  
Trichinella Nativa

AbstractIn most Arctic and subarctic regions, Trichinella nativa is a common zoonotic pathogen circulating among wild carnivores. The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is one of the most important reservoirs for T. nativa in frigid zones. In Iceland, Trichinella infection has never been detected in the local wildlife, despite the presence of one of the host species, the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus). In 2008, one of two polar bears that had swum to Iceland's coast was found to have been infected with Trichinella sp. (8.5 larvae/g in the tongue, 6.8 larvae/g in the masseter and 4.4 larvae/g in the diaphragm); the larvae were identified as T. nativa. This is the second report of Trichinella infection in polar bears that reached the Icelandic coast. In the present work, we describe this case of infection and discuss the epidemiological features that have allowed T. nativa to spread in Arctic regions.

IV.—Further Investigations regarding the Submerged Terraces and River Valleys Bordering the British Isles

1898 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 351-357
Author(s):  
Edward Hull
Keyword(s):  
Polar Bear ◽  
Palaearctic Region ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Fox ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Great Abundance ◽  
European Continent ◽  
Arctic Species ◽  
River Valleys ◽  
Bear Witness

I. Introductory.—The researches of previous investigators have had the result of showing that the platform on which are planted the British Isles and adjoining parts of the European continent was formerly connected by land with Iceland through the Shetland and Faeröe Islands, and this again with Greenland. This former connection is placed beyond doubt by the character of the fauna and flora. Dr. Wallace includes Iceland in his Palæarctic region, which embraces the British Isles and Europe; and, as Professor Newton has shown, all the land mammalia, with only three exceptions, are European. The exceptions are those of Arctic habitats–the polar bear, the Arctic fox, and a mouse (Mus Icelandicus). Amongst the birds, the peculiar species are allied to those of Europe and the Faeroes. The botany and entomology of Iceland have been described in the Transactions of this Institute by the Eev. Dr. Walker, F.L.S.,3 and his observations bear witness to the former land connection of Iceland with the British Isles. He remarks that “the first thing that strikes a visitor from the latter country is not the number of Arctic species, but the great abundance of plants that are very rare and local in Britain, such as Saxifraga cmspitosa, Lichnis alpina, and Erigeron alpinum, etc.” The disappearance of the former glacial conditions from the British Isles and their continuance in Iceland account for the remarkable abundance of the plants referred to.

Logistic problems in the Canadian Arctic

Polar Record ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 10 (67) ◽  
pp. 365-371
Author(s):  
T. A. Harwood
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Weather Bureau ◽  
Weather Stations ◽  
Resolute Bay ◽  
States Weather

In 1946 the United States Weather Bureau and the Canadian Meteorological Service installed the first of the Joint Arctic Weather Stations at Resolute Bay. The network of satellite stations was extended into the Arctic archipelago in the following years on roughly a 275-mile spacing to Mould Bay, Isachsen, Eureka and Alert.

The arctic fox in fennoscandia and Iceland: Management problems

1989 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Páll Hersteinsson ◽  
Anders Angerbjörn ◽  
Karl Frafjord ◽  
Asko Kaikusalo
Keyword(s):  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Fox ◽  
Management Problems

Accumulation and potential health effects of organohalogenated compounds in the arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus)—a review

2015 ◽  
Vol 502 ◽  
pp. 510-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrine Eggers Pedersen ◽  
Bjarne Styrishave ◽  
Christian Sonne ◽  
Rune Dietz ◽  
Bjørn Munro Jenssen
Keyword(s):  
Health Effects ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Fox ◽  
Vulpes Lagopus ◽  
Potential Health

Dental evidence for variation in diet over time and space in the Arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus

Polar Biology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter S. Ungar ◽  
Blaire Van Valkenburgh ◽  
Alexandria S. Peterson ◽  
Aleksandr A. Sokolov ◽  
Natalia A. Sokolova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Arctic ◽  
Arctic Fox ◽  
Vulpes Lagopus ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Dental Evidence ◽  
Over Time

‘Verscheurende Beyren’

2022 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-115
Author(s):  
Robert Bauernfeind
Keyword(s):  
Polar Bear ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Polar Bears

This article examines the depiction of polar bears in Dutch painting and graphics from the late 16th to the early 18th centuries. Reports of the first encounters between Dutch humans and polar bears established the idea of these animals as aggressive predators. This idea dominated the image of the bear in illustrated travelogues as well as in allegorical depictions of the Arctic and whaling pictures. The polar bear thus became a symbol for the dangers of the region and appears as an obstacle to the human exploitation of the Arctic. However, depictions of the bloody hunt for polar bears indicate the economically motivated triumph of Europeans in this inhospitable area.

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