Site-specific length-biomass relationships of arctic arthropod families are critical for accurate ecological inferences.

ABSTRACT: Arthropods play a crucial role in terrestrial ecosystems, for instance in mediating energy fluxes and in forming the food base for many organisms. To better understand their functional role in such ecosystem processes, monitoring of trends in arthropod biomass is essential. Obtaining direct measurements of the body mass of individual specimens is laborious. Therefore, these data are often indirectly acquired by utilizing allometric length-biomass relationships based on a correlative parameter, such as body length. Previous studies have often used such relationships with a low taxonomic resolution and/or small sample size and/or adopted regressions calibrated in different biomes. Despite the scientific interest in the ecology of arctic arthropods, no site-specific family-level length-biomas

SUBMITTER: Versluijs TSL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10492534 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature