Early snow melt and diverging thermal constraints control body size in arctic-alpine spiders

• Main Authors: Wehner, Alessa, Hein, Nils, Beckers, Niklas, Dobbert, Svenja, Pape, Roland, Löffler, Jörg
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: arthropods; Norway; Pardosa; body size variation; arctic-alpine; long-term data; pitfall trapping; Arctic; Bergen; Moen
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/7098310; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.18931zd1c

To predict species' responses to a rapidly changing environment, it is necessary to detect current clines of life-history traits and understand their drivers. We studied body size variation, a key trait in evolutionary biology, of two arctic-alpine lycosid spiders and underlying mechanisms cont...