Differential arthropod responses to warming are altering the structure of Arctic communities.

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 c

SUBMITTER: Koltz AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5936898 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature