The future of soil invertebrate communities in polar regions: Different climate change responses in the Arctic and Antarctic?

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 409-419

  Nielsen, Uffe N ^a   Wall, Diana H ^b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Arctic; Belowground; Climate change; Polar regions; Precipitation; Soil fauna; Warming

Indexed keywords

CARBON SINK; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FUTURE PROSPECT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLAR REGION; SOIL FAUNA; SPECIES RICHNESS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ANIMAL; ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATE; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; SOIL;

ANIMALS; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; INVERTEBRATES; SOIL;

ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC;

INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 84873447259     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12058     Document Type: Review

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