The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic?
The polar regions are experiencing rapid climate change with implications for terrestrial ecosystems. Here, despite limited knowledge, we make some early predictions on soil invertebrate community responses to predicted twenty-first century climate change. Geographic and environmental differences su...
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ftunivwestsyd:oai:researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au:uws_17202 2023-05-15T13:54:15+02:00 The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic? Nielsen, Uffe N. (R17023) Wall, Diana H. School of Science and Health (Host institution) 2013 print 11 http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/529866 https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12058 eng eng U.S.A., American Society for Microbiology Ecology Letters--1461-023X--1461-0248 Vol. 16 Issue. 3 No. pp: 409-419 XXXXXX - Unknown journal article 2013 ftunivwestsyd https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.12058 2020-12-05T17:32:34Z The polar regions are experiencing rapid climate change with implications for terrestrial ecosystems. Here, despite limited knowledge, we make some early predictions on soil invertebrate community responses to predicted twenty-first century climate change. Geographic and environmental differences suggest that climate change responses will differ between the Arctic and Antarctic. We predict significant, but different, belowground community changes in both regions. This change will be driven mainly by vegetation type changes in the Arctic, while communities in Antarctica will respond to climate amelioration directly and indirectly through changes in microbial community composition and activity, and the development of, and/or changes in, plant communities. Climate amelioration is likely to allow a greater influx of non-native species into both the Arctic and Antarctic promoting landscape scale biodiversity change. Non-native competitive species could, however, have negative effects on local biodiversity particularly in the Arctic where the communities are already species rich. Species ranges will shift in both areas as the climate changes potentially posing a problem for endemic species in the Arctic where options for northward migration are limited. Greater soil biotic activity may move the Arctic towards a trajectory of being a substantial carbon source, while Antarctica could become a carbon sink. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Climate change University of Western Sydney (UWS): Research Direct Antarctic Arctic Ecology Letters 16 3 409 419 |
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The polar regions are experiencing rapid climate change with implications for terrestrial ecosystems. Here, despite limited knowledge, we make some early predictions on soil invertebrate community responses to predicted twenty-first century climate change. Geographic and environmental differences suggest that climate change responses will differ between the Arctic and Antarctic. We predict significant, but different, belowground community changes in both regions. This change will be driven mainly by vegetation type changes in the Arctic, while communities in Antarctica will respond to climate amelioration directly and indirectly through changes in microbial community composition and activity, and the development of, and/or changes in, plant communities. Climate amelioration is likely to allow a greater influx of non-native species into both the Arctic and Antarctic promoting landscape scale biodiversity change. Non-native competitive species could, however, have negative effects on local biodiversity particularly in the Arctic where the communities are already species rich. Species ranges will shift in both areas as the climate changes potentially posing a problem for endemic species in the Arctic where options for northward migration are limited. Greater soil biotic activity may move the Arctic towards a trajectory of being a substantial carbon source, while Antarctica could become a carbon sink. |
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The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic? |
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The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic? |
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The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic? |
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The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic? |
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The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic? |
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future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions : different climate change responses in the arctic and antarctic? |
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U.S.A., American Society for Microbiology |
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