Environmental factors influencing fine-scale distribution of Antarctica’s only endemic insect

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: Potts, Leslie J., Gantz, J. D., Kawarasaki, Yuta, Philip, Benjamin N., Gonthier, David J., Law, Audrey D., Moe, Luke, Unrine, Jason M., McCulley, Rebecca L., Lee, Richard E., Denlinger, David L., Teets, Nicholas M.
• Other Authors: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation, National Institute of Food and Agriculture
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Five Islands; Antarc*; Antarctic midge; Antarctica; Belgica antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04714-9; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00442-020-04714-9.pdf; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00442-020-04714-9/fulltext.html

Abstract Species distributions are dependent on interactions with abiotic and biotic factors in the environment. Abiotic factors like temperature, moisture, and soil nutrients, along with biotic interactions within and between species, can all have strong influences on spatial distributions of plant...