Supplementary material from "High resistance towards herbivore-induced habitat change in a high Arctic arthropod community"
Mammal herbivores may exert strong impacts on plant communities, and are often key drivers of vegetation composition and diversity. We tested whether such mammal-induced changes to a high Arctic plant community are reflected in the structure of other trophic levels. Specifically, we tested whether s...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4080446 2023-05-15T14:47:51+02:00 Supplementary material from "High resistance towards herbivore-induced habitat change in a high Arctic arthropod community" Schmidt, Niels M. Mosbacher, Jesper B. Eitzinger, Bernhard Vesterinen, Eero J. Roslin, Tomas 2018 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4080446 https://figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_High_resistance_towards_herbivore-induced_habitat_change_in_a_high_Arctic_arthropod_community_/4080446 unknown Figshare https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0054 CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Molecular Biology Ecology FOS Biological sciences 60114 Systems Biology Collection article 2018 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.4080446 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0054 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z Mammal herbivores may exert strong impacts on plant communities, and are often key drivers of vegetation composition and diversity. We tested whether such mammal-induced changes to a high Arctic plant community are reflected in the structure of other trophic levels. Specifically, we tested whether substantial vegetation changes following the experimental exclusion of muskoxen ( Ovibos moschatus ) altered the composition of the arthropod community and the predator–prey interactions therein. Overall, we found no impact of muskox exclusion on the arthropod community: the diversity and abundance of both arthropod predators (spiders) and of their prey were unaffected by muskox presence, and so was the qualitative and quantitative structure of predator–prey interactions. Hence, high Arctic arthropod communities seem highly resistant towards even large biotic changes in their habitat, which we attribute to the high connectance in the food web. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic muskox ovibos moschatus DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Arctic |
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Mammal herbivores may exert strong impacts on plant communities, and are often key drivers of vegetation composition and diversity. We tested whether such mammal-induced changes to a high Arctic plant community are reflected in the structure of other trophic levels. Specifically, we tested whether substantial vegetation changes following the experimental exclusion of muskoxen ( Ovibos moschatus ) altered the composition of the arthropod community and the predator–prey interactions therein. Overall, we found no impact of muskox exclusion on the arthropod community: the diversity and abundance of both arthropod predators (spiders) and of their prey were unaffected by muskox presence, and so was the qualitative and quantitative structure of predator–prey interactions. Hence, high Arctic arthropod communities seem highly resistant towards even large biotic changes in their habitat, which we attribute to the high connectance in the food web. |
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