Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community
Abstract Climate warming is predicted to have major impacts on the structure of terrestrial communities, particularly in high latitude ecosystems where growing seasons are short. Higher temperatures may dampen seasonal dynamics in community composition as a consequence of earlier snowmelt, with pote...
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crwiley:10.1111/1365-2656.13448 2024-06-02T08:09:20+00:00 Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community Robinson, Sinikka I. Mikola, Juha Ovaskainen, Otso O'Gorman, Eoin J. Academy of Finland Norges Forskningsråd Jane ja Aatos Erkon Säätiö Suomen Kulttuurirahasto Royal Society Natural Environment Research Council British Ecological Society 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13448 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.13448 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1111/1365-2656.13448 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2656.13448 en eng Wiley http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Journal of Animal Ecology volume 90, issue 5, page 1217-1227 ISSN 0021-8790 1365-2656 journal-article 2021 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13448 2024-05-03T12:01:32Z Abstract Climate warming is predicted to have major impacts on the structure of terrestrial communities, particularly in high latitude ecosystems where growing seasons are short. Higher temperatures may dampen seasonal dynamics in community composition as a consequence of earlier snowmelt, with potentially cascading effects across all levels of biological organisation. Here, we examined changes in community assembly and structure along a natural soil temperature gradient in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland, during the summer of 2015. Sample collection over several time points within a season allowed us to assess whether temperature alters temporal variance in terrestrial communities and compositional turnover. We found that seasonal fluctuations in species richness, diversity and evenness were dampened as soil temperature increased, whereas invertebrate biomass varied more. Body mass was found to be a good predictor of species occurrence, with smaller species found at higher soil temperatures and emerging earlier in the season. Our results provide more in‐depth understanding of the temporal nature of community and population‐level responses to temperature, and indicate that climate warming will likely dampen the seasonal turnover of community structure that is characteristic of high latitude invertebrate communities. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Subarctic Wiley Online Library Hengill ENVELOPE(-21.306,-21.306,64.078,64.078) Journal of Animal Ecology 90 5 1217 1227 |
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Abstract Climate warming is predicted to have major impacts on the structure of terrestrial communities, particularly in high latitude ecosystems where growing seasons are short. Higher temperatures may dampen seasonal dynamics in community composition as a consequence of earlier snowmelt, with potentially cascading effects across all levels of biological organisation. Here, we examined changes in community assembly and structure along a natural soil temperature gradient in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland, during the summer of 2015. Sample collection over several time points within a season allowed us to assess whether temperature alters temporal variance in terrestrial communities and compositional turnover. We found that seasonal fluctuations in species richness, diversity and evenness were dampened as soil temperature increased, whereas invertebrate biomass varied more. Body mass was found to be a good predictor of species occurrence, with smaller species found at higher soil temperatures and emerging earlier in the season. Our results provide more in‐depth understanding of the temporal nature of community and population‐level responses to temperature, and indicate that climate warming will likely dampen the seasonal turnover of community structure that is characteristic of high latitude invertebrate communities. |
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Academy of Finland Norges Forskningsråd Jane ja Aatos Erkon Säätiö Suomen Kulttuurirahasto Royal Society Natural Environment Research Council British Ecological Society |
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Robinson, Sinikka I. Mikola, Juha Ovaskainen, Otso O'Gorman, Eoin J. Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community |
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Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community |
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Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community |
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Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community |
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Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community |
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Temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community |
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temperature effects on the temporal dynamics of a subarctic invertebrate community |
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