Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover

• Published in: Nature Ecology & Evolution
• Main Authors: Brown, Lee E., Khamis, Kieran, Wilkes, Martin, Blaen, Phillip, Brittain, John E., Carrivick, Jonathan L., Fell, Sarah, Friberg, Nikolai, Füreder, Leopold, Gislason, Gisli Mar, Hainie, Sarah, Hannah, David M., James, William H. M., Lencioni, Valeria, Olafsson, Jon S., Robinson, Christopher T., Saltveit, Svein J., Thompson, Craig, Milner, Alexander M.
• Other Authors: Líf- og umhverfisvísindastofnun (HÍ), Institute of Life and Environmental Sciences (UI), Verkfræði- og náttúruvísindasvið (HÍ), School of Engineering and Natural Sciences (UI), Háskóli Íslands, University of Iceland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2017
• Subjects: Hryggleysingjar; Straumvötn; Loftslagsbreytingar; Líffræðileg fjölbreytni; Arctic; Ner; glacier; Iceland
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/814; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-017-0426-x

Global change threatens invertebrate biodiversity and its central role in numerous ecosystem functions and services. Functional trait analyses have been advocated to uncover global mechanisms behind biodiversity responses to environmental change, but the application of this approach for invertebrate...