Environmental factors influencing fine-scale distribution of Antarctica’s only endemic insect

• Published in: Oecologia
• Main Authors: Potts, Leslie J., Gantz, J. D., Kawarasaki, Yuta, Philip, Benjamin N., Gonthier, David J., Law, Audrey D., Moe, Luke, Unrine, Jason M., McCulley, Rebecca L., Lee, Richard E., Denlinger, David L., Teets, Nicholas M.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
• Subjects: Highlighted Student Research; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Five Islands; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic midge; Antarctica; Belgica antarctica
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7683470/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32725300; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04714-9

Species distributions are dependent on interactions with abiotic and biotic factors in the environment. Abiotic factors like temperature, moisture, and soil nutrients, along with biotic interactions within and between species, can all have strong influences on spatial distributions of plants and ani...