Figures & data
Fig. 1 The location of Svalbard and the positions of the two settlements of Barentsburg and Longyearbyen.
Fig. 2 Average monthly air temperature in Barentsburg (solid line), Longyearbyen (broken line) and precipitation in Barentsburg (bars) for the period 1961–1990.
Fig. 3 Eastern shore of Grønfjord with the derelict cowshed and greenhouse of Barentsburg to the right of the picture. Anthropogenic soils sampled from location A. Natural situation logger located under the bird cliffs at location B (picture taken 21 July 2011).
Fig. 4 The vegetation of the anthropogenic soils under the cowsheds. View from on the bank on the western side of the derelict cowsheds and looking south down Grønfjord (picture taken on 27 September 2011).
Table 1 The invertebrate community sampled from the cowshed soils. Species marked with an asterisk have not been recorded in Svalbard outside the anthropogenic soils in Barentsburg. The remaining species are generally widely distributed in Svalbard.
Fig. 5 Soil temperatures (1 cm depth) in the cowshed soils (solid line) and at the bottom of the bird cliffs in Barentsburg approximately 500 m to the north of the cowsheds (broken line). The dotted line is the 0°C reference line.
