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Acknowledgements

This book is based on extensive fieldwork that was only possible thanks to the logistics and funding provided by the administration of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) and the French Polar Institute Paul-Émile Victor (IPEV).

We are grateful to the leaders of the successive research programs, dedicated to the study of biodiversity and the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, where this work took place: Paul Tréhen, Yves Frenot, Marc Lebouvier and David Renault.

From the very first missions that followed the establishment of the bases to the present day, many explorations have been carried out in almost all sectors of the Îles Kerguelen and Île de la Possession. Many people have made it possible to reach an almost exhaustive knowledge of the macroinvertebrate fauna. This involves more than 150 people: all the young wintering field assistants and the scientists in summer campaigns, as well as the civilian and military staff dedicated to logistics and who often accompanied the scientists into the field. May we thank them all here collectively!

We would like to thank Marc Lebouvier who made a major contribution to data acquisition and management, and Christelle Buchard and Romain Georges, who have done a lot of work on species identification, collection management and the identification training we put in place each year for young wintering scientists. We are also very pleased to have been able to illustrate most of the invertebrate species present on the Îles Kerguelen and the Île de la Possession thanks to our fellow photographer, Bernard Chaubet. Damien Fourcy drew all the maps of the Kerguelen and Crozet islands specifically for this book.

We would also like to thank the specialists who brought their expertise on the chapters devoted to the different taxonomic groups: Yves Frenot (earthworms), Maryvonne Charrier (mollusks), Julien Pétillon and Cyril Courtial (spiders), Steven Chown (weevils), Vladimir Gusarov (rove beetles), Adam Broadley (sciarids), Torbjorn Ekrem and Aina Maerk Aspaas (chironomids), Evelyne Turpeau and Christelle Buchard (aphids) and Richard Harrington (lepidopterans).

We are grateful to the “Zone Atelier Antarctique et Terres Australes” (https://zaantarctique.org/) and to Françoise le Moal for editing the meteorological data from the Kerguelen and Crozet weather stations provided by Météo France. We would also like to thank Clément Quetel and Floran Hoarau of the French Southern Lands National Nature Reserve for the information on the reserve and the maps of the access areas, as well as Yann Laurent and Franck Duval for their drawings of insect morphology.

David Hatcher and Richard Harrington provided invaluable help in proofreading and correcting our French-English.

The entire ISTE team were also a great help in the conception of the book.

Thanks to our supervisory institutes, the University of Rennes 1, the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and the National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) for hosting our research activities and signing our mission orders!

Finally, we express our warmest gratitude to Steven Chown and Yvon Le Maho, who agreed to write the forewords of this book and with whom we are happy to share our passion for the sub-Antarctic islands.