Data 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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ftdryad:oai:v1.datadryad.org:10255/dryad.169885 2023-05-15T14:25:17+02:00 Data 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 High arctic 2018-04-19T15:11:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.169885 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3d154 unknown doi:10.5061/dryad.3d154/1 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2018.0054 doi:10.5061/dryad.3d154 Schmidt NM, Mosbacher JB, Eitzinger B, Vesterinen EJ, Roslin T (2018) High resistance towards herbivore-induced habitat change in a high Arctic arthropod community. Biology Letters 14(5): 20180054. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.169885 Araneae Molecular diet analysis Metabarcoding Predator-prey Article 2018 ftdryad https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3d154 https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.3d154/1 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0054 2020-01-01T16:03:54Z 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 Arctic muskox ovibos moschatus Dryad Digital Repository (Duke University) 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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Schmidt, Niels M. Mosbacher, Jesper B. Eitzinger, Bernhard Vesterinen, Eero J. Roslin, Tomas |
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Data from: High resistance towards herbivore-induced habitat change in a high arctic arthropod community |
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data from: high resistance towards herbivore-induced habitat change in a high arctic arthropod community |
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doi:10.5061/dryad.3d154/1 doi:10.1098/rsbl.2018.0054 doi:10.5061/dryad.3d154 Schmidt NM, Mosbacher JB, Eitzinger B, Vesterinen EJ, Roslin T (2018) High resistance towards herbivore-induced habitat change in a high Arctic arthropod community. Biology Letters 14(5): 20180054. http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.169885 |
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