Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios
Parts of Antarctica were amongst the most rapidly changing regions of the planet during the second half of the Twentieth Century. Even so, today, most of Antarctica remains in the grip of continental ice sheets, with only about 0.2% of its overall area being ice-free. The continent’s terrestrial fau...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:522770 2023-05-15T13:41:43+02:00 Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios Contador, Tamara Gañan, Melisa Bizama, Gustavo Fuentes-Jaque, Guillermo Morales, Luis Rendoll, Javier Simoes, Felipe Kennedy, James Rozzi, Ricardo Convey, Peter 2020-06-03 text http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522770/ https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522770/1/s41598-020-65571-3.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-65571-3 en eng Nature Research https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/522770/1/s41598-020-65571-3.pdf Contador, Tamara; Gañan, Melisa; Bizama, Gustavo; Fuentes-Jaque, Guillermo; Morales, Luis; Rendoll, Javier; Simoes, Felipe; Kennedy, James; Rozzi, Ricardo; Convey, Peter orcid:0000-0001-8497-9903 . 2020 Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios. Scientific Reports, 10 (1), 9087. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65571-3 <https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65571-3> cc_by_4 CC-BY Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2020 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65571-3 2023-02-04T19:48:04Z Parts of Antarctica were amongst the most rapidly changing regions of the planet during the second half of the Twentieth Century. Even so, today, most of Antarctica remains in the grip of continental ice sheets, with only about 0.2% of its overall area being ice-free. The continent’s terrestrial fauna consists only of invertebrates, with just two native species of insects, the chironomid midges Parochlus steinenii and Belgica antarctica. We integrate ecophysiological information with the development of new high-resolution climatic layers for Antarctica, to better understand how the distribution of P. steinenii may respond to change over the next century under different IPCC climate change scenarios. We conclude that the species has the potential to expand its distribution to include parts of the west and east coasts of the Antarctic Peninsula and even coastal ice-free areas in parts of continental Antarctica. We propose P. steinenii as an effective native sentinel and indicator species of climate change in the Antarctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Belgica antarctica Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Antarctic The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Scientific Reports 10 1 |
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Parts of Antarctica were amongst the most rapidly changing regions of the planet during the second half of the Twentieth Century. Even so, today, most of Antarctica remains in the grip of continental ice sheets, with only about 0.2% of its overall area being ice-free. The continent’s terrestrial fauna consists only of invertebrates, with just two native species of insects, the chironomid midges Parochlus steinenii and Belgica antarctica. We integrate ecophysiological information with the development of new high-resolution climatic layers for Antarctica, to better understand how the distribution of P. steinenii may respond to change over the next century under different IPCC climate change scenarios. We conclude that the species has the potential to expand its distribution to include parts of the west and east coasts of the Antarctic Peninsula and even coastal ice-free areas in parts of continental Antarctica. We propose P. steinenii as an effective native sentinel and indicator species of climate change in the Antarctic. |
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Contador, Tamara Gañan, Melisa Bizama, Gustavo Fuentes-Jaque, Guillermo Morales, Luis Rendoll, Javier Simoes, Felipe Kennedy, James Rozzi, Ricardo Convey, Peter Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios |
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Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios |
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Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios |
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Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios |
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Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios |
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Assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only Antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios |
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assessing distribution shifts and ecophysiological characteristics of the only antarctic winged midge under climate change scenarios |
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