Arthropods of the Bleakest Barren Lands: Composition and Distribution of the Arthropod Fauna of the Northwestern Queen Elizabeth Islands

1964 ◽  
Vol 96 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. McAlpine
Keyword(s):  
High Arctic ◽  
Weather Station ◽  
Summer Climate ◽  
Arthropod Fauna ◽  
Insect Survey ◽  
Ellef Ringnes Island ◽  
Mackenzie King

The Northwestern Queen Elizabeth Islands, i.e., Meighen, Ellef Ringnes, Amund Ringnes, King Christian, Lougheed, Borden, Mackenzie King, and Brock, constitute the most barren part of the high arctic fell field. Within this group, the richest area is at Isachsen on Ellef Ringnes Island; there the relief is higher and the variety of habitats greater and richer than at any other place on any of these islands. Despite this relative richness, however, Isachsen has the coldest summer climate of any arctic weather station (July mean, about 38°F.) and the smallest arthropod fauna (55 species of spiders, mites, collemboles and insects, according to studies conducted there in 1960) of any locality investigated during the Northern Insect Survey.

scholarly journals High Arctic IRMA automatic weather station field data 1991-92: part 1, documentation, part 2, plots

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
C L Labine ◽  
B T Alt ◽  
D Atkinson ◽  
A Headley ◽  
R M Koerner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Data ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Weather Station ◽  
Automatic Weather Station

Extensive Early Cretaceous (Albian) methane seepage on Ellef Ringnes Island, Canadian High Arctic

2017 ◽  
Vol 129 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 788-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista Williscroft ◽  
Stephen E. Grasby ◽  
Benoit Beauchamp ◽  
Crispin T.S. Little ◽  
Keith Dewing ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Cretaceous ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Canadian High Arctic ◽  
Methane Seepage ◽  
Ellef Ringnes Island

A record of Holocene summer climate from a Canadian high-Arctic ice core

Nature ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 343 (6259) ◽  
pp. 630-631 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Koerner ◽  
D. A. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Ice Core ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Canadian High Arctic ◽  
Summer Climate ◽  
Arctic Ice

INSECTS AND ARACHNIDS OF BATHURST ISLAND, CANADIAN ARCTIC ARCHIPELAGO

1972 ◽  
Vol 104 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. V. Danks ◽  
J. R. Byers
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
High Arctic ◽  
Insect Species ◽  
Canadian Arctic Archipelago ◽  
Terrestrial Arthropods ◽  
Adverse Weather Conditions ◽  
Adverse Weather ◽  
Arthropod Fauna

AbstractTerrestrial arthropods collected from Bathurst Island in 1969 are listed: 78 species (4 spiders, 13 mites, and 61 insects, 30 of which are chironomids) have now been collected in this area of the high arctic. Notes on the overwintering of some of the commoner insect species are given. Although the collecting season was a poor one in 1969 because of adverse weather conditions, the list probably represents half or more of the island’s arthropod fauna. The nature of the list indicates that this fauna is impoverished compared to some other areas of the Queen Elizabeth Islands. This impoverishment may be largely explained by climatic factors.

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