The Early Season Community of Flower-Visiting Arthropods in a High-Altitude Alpine Environment.

ABSTRACT: In mountain ecosystems, climate change can cause spatiotemporal shifts, impacting the composition of communities and altering fundamental biotic interactions, such as those involving flower-visiting arthropods. On of the main problems in assessing the effects of climate change on arthropods in these environments is the lack of baseline data. In particular, the arthropod communities on early flowering high-altitude plants are poorly investigated, although the early season is a critical moment for possible mismatches. In this study, we characterised the flower-visiting arthropod community on the early flowering high-altitude Alpine plant, Androsace brevis (Primulaceae). In addition, we tested the effect of abiotic factors (temperature and wind speed) and other variables (time, i.e., h

SUBMITTER: Bonelli M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9032982 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature