Responses of terrestrial plants and invertebrates to environmental change at high latitudes
Many invertebrates show flexibility in their life cycles and are likely to respond to changes in climate as they have in the past. However, changes in temperature and photoperiod may disturb the life cycles of some existing polar invertebrates while continuing to constrain the polewards migration of...
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crroyalsociety:10.1098/rstb.1992.0148 2024-06-02T07:58:38+00:00 Responses of terrestrial plants and invertebrates to environmental change at high latitudes 1992 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1992.0148 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1992.0148 en eng The Royal Society https://royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences volume 338, issue 1285, page 279-288 ISSN 0962-8436 1471-2970 journal-article 1992 crroyalsociety https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.1992.0148 2024-05-07T14:16:20Z Many invertebrates show flexibility in their life cycles and are likely to respond to changes in climate as they have in the past. However, changes in temperature and photoperiod may disturb the life cycles of some existing polar invertebrates while continuing to constrain the polewards migration of more temperate species. Higher plants are likely to have higher productivity as temperatures and atmospheric CO 2 levels increase but this productivity will be reduced by exposure to increasing UV-B radiation. Higher plants migrate more slowly than the rate at which climate is predicted to change and many species will be trapped in supra-optimal climates. Both mosses and lichens can migrate faster than higher plants, propagules of non-polar species already reaching the Antarctic, but they have fewer mechanisms of responding to changing environments. Polar vegetation and ecosystems provide feedback to the climate system: positive feedbacks are associated with decreases in reflectivity and increased carbon emissions from warm ing soils. In the Antarctic, feedback and responses to environmental change will be smaller than in the Arctic because of the less responsive cryptogams which dominate the Antarctic, the paucity of Antarctic soils, and geographical barriers to plant and invertebrate migrations. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic The Royal Society Antarctic Arctic The Antarctic Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences 338 1285 279 288 |
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Many invertebrates show flexibility in their life cycles and are likely to respond to changes in climate as they have in the past. However, changes in temperature and photoperiod may disturb the life cycles of some existing polar invertebrates while continuing to constrain the polewards migration of more temperate species. Higher plants are likely to have higher productivity as temperatures and atmospheric CO 2 levels increase but this productivity will be reduced by exposure to increasing UV-B radiation. Higher plants migrate more slowly than the rate at which climate is predicted to change and many species will be trapped in supra-optimal climates. Both mosses and lichens can migrate faster than higher plants, propagules of non-polar species already reaching the Antarctic, but they have fewer mechanisms of responding to changing environments. Polar vegetation and ecosystems provide feedback to the climate system: positive feedbacks are associated with decreases in reflectivity and increased carbon emissions from warm ing soils. In the Antarctic, feedback and responses to environmental change will be smaller than in the Arctic because of the less responsive cryptogams which dominate the Antarctic, the paucity of Antarctic soils, and geographical barriers to plant and invertebrate migrations. |
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Responses of terrestrial plants and invertebrates to environmental change at high latitudes |
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Responses of terrestrial plants and invertebrates to environmental change at high latitudes |
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Responses of terrestrial plants and invertebrates to environmental change at high latitudes |
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