Response of Antarctic terrestrial microarthropods to long-term climate manipulations

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3130-3140

  Convey, P ^a   Pugh, P J A ^a,d   Jackson, C ^b   Murray, A W ^a,e   Ruhland, C T ^c,f   Xiong, F S ^c   Day, T A ^c  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ANGLIA RUSKIN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e CENTRAL SCIENCE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^f MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acari; Antarctic soil microarthropods and climate change; Arthropod; Climate change; Climate manipulation; Collembola; Diptera; Temperature variation, effect an arthropod numbers; Ultraviolet radiation; Water availability, effect on arthropod numbers

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BIOTA; CLIMATE CHANGE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SOIL; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA;

ACARI; ARTHROPODA; CELLULAR ORGANISMS; COLLEMBOLA; DIPTERA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0038814765     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[3130:ROATMT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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