Congruent responses to weather variability in high arctic herbivores
Assessing the role of weather in the dynamics of wildlife populations is a pressing task in the face of rapid environmental change. Rodents and ruminants are abundant herbivore species in most Arctic ecosystems, many of which are experiencing particularly rapid climate change. Their different life-h...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3497145 2023-05-15T14:49:32+02:00 Congruent responses to weather variability in high arctic herbivores Stien, Audun Ims, Rolf A. Albon, Steve D. Fuglei, Eva Irvine, R. Justin Ropstad, Erik Halvorsen, Odd Langvatn, Rolf Loe, Leif Egil Veiberg, Vebjørn Yoccoz, Nigel G. 2012-12-23 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497145 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23015455 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0764 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497145 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23015455 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0764 This journal is © 2012 The Royal Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Global Change Biology Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0764 2013-09-04T15:52:13Z Assessing the role of weather in the dynamics of wildlife populations is a pressing task in the face of rapid environmental change. Rodents and ruminants are abundant herbivore species in most Arctic ecosystems, many of which are experiencing particularly rapid climate change. Their different life-history characteristics, with the exception of their trophic position, suggest that they should show different responses to environmental variation. Here we show that the only mammalian herbivores on the Arctic islands of Svalbard, reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and sibling voles (Microtus levis), exhibit strong synchrony in population parameters. This synchrony is due to rain-on-snow events that cause ground ice and demonstrates that climate impacts can be similarly integrated and expressed in species with highly contrasting life histories. The finding suggests that responses of wildlife populations to climate variability and change might be more consistent in Polar regions than elsewhere owing to the strength of the climate impact and the simplicity of the ecosystem. Text Arctic Climate change Rangifer tarandus Svalbard svalbard reindeer PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Svalbard Biology Letters 8 6 1002 1005 |
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Assessing the role of weather in the dynamics of wildlife populations is a pressing task in the face of rapid environmental change. Rodents and ruminants are abundant herbivore species in most Arctic ecosystems, many of which are experiencing particularly rapid climate change. Their different life-history characteristics, with the exception of their trophic position, suggest that they should show different responses to environmental variation. Here we show that the only mammalian herbivores on the Arctic islands of Svalbard, reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) and sibling voles (Microtus levis), exhibit strong synchrony in population parameters. This synchrony is due to rain-on-snow events that cause ground ice and demonstrates that climate impacts can be similarly integrated and expressed in species with highly contrasting life histories. The finding suggests that responses of wildlife populations to climate variability and change might be more consistent in Polar regions than elsewhere owing to the strength of the climate impact and the simplicity of the ecosystem. |
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Stien, Audun Ims, Rolf A. Albon, Steve D. Fuglei, Eva Irvine, R. Justin Ropstad, Erik Halvorsen, Odd Langvatn, Rolf Loe, Leif Egil Veiberg, Vebjørn Yoccoz, Nigel G. |
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Congruent responses to weather variability in high arctic herbivores |
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