ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
Differential arthropod responses to warming are altering the structure of Arctic communities.
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- Impacts of future climate on the distribution of 4 bumblebee species in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2023Article
- Herbivores in Arctic ecosystems: Effects of climate change and implications for carbon and nutrient cycling.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2022Review
- Opposing global change drivers counterbalance trends in breeding North American monarch butterflies.Global change biology · 2022Article
- The Resilience of Polar Collembola (Springtails) in a Changing Climate.Current research in insect science · 2022Review
- Increasing shrub damage by invertebrate herbivores in the warming and drying tundra of West Greenland.Oecologia · 2021Article
- Nonlinear trends in abundance and diversity and complex responses to climate change in Arctic arthropods.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Insects and recent climate change.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- Parasitoids indicate major climate-induced shifts in arctic communities.Global change biology · 2020Article
- Climate-driven benthic invertebrate activity and biogeochemical functioning across the Barents Sea polar front.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020Article
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- A DNA Barcoding Survey of an Arctic Arthropod Community: Implications for Future Monitoring.Insects · 2020Article
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Abstract
The Arctic is experiencing some of the fastest rates of warming on the planet. Although many studies have documented responses to such warming by individual species, the idiosyncratic nature of these findings has prevented us from extrapolating them to community-level predictions. Here, we leverage the availability of a long-term dataset from Zackenberg, Greenland (593 700 specimens collected between 1996 and 2014), to investigate how climate parameters influence the abundance of different arthropod groups and overall community composition. We find that variation in mean seasonal temperatures, winter duration and winter freeze-thaw events is correlated with taxon-specific and habitat-dependent changes in arthropod abundances. In addition, we find that arthropod communities have exhibited compositional changes consistent with the expected effects of recent shifts towards warmer active seasons and fewer freeze-thaw events in NE Greenland. Changes in community composition are up to five times more extreme in drier than wet habitats, with herbivores and parasitoids generally increasing in abundance, while the opposite is true for surface detritivores. These results suggest that species interactions and food web dynamics are changing in the Arctic, with potential implications for key ecosystem processes such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity.
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