The toughest animals of the Earth versus global warming: Effects of long‐term experimental warming on tardigrade community structure of a temperate deciduous forest

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Vecchi, Matteo, Kossi Adakpo, Laurent, Dunn, Robert R., Nichols, Lauren M., Penick, Clint A., Sanders, Nathan J., Rebecchi, Lorena, Guidetti, Roberto
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Academic Publishers 2021
• Subjects: Tardigrades; climate change; experimental; global warming; water bears; Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Science; Water Bears; Antarctic Science; Tardigrade
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/168469; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7816

Understanding how different taxa respond to global warming is essential for predicting future changes and elaborating strategies to buffer them. Tardigrades are well known for their ability to survive environmental stressors, such as drying and freezing, by undergoing cryptobiosis and rapidly recove...