Aphid-willow interactions in a high Arctic ecosystem: Responses to raised temperature and goose disturbance

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3698-3708

  Gillespie, Mark A K ^a   Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S ^b,c   Hodkinson, Ian D ^d   Cooper, Elisabeth J ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^d LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Climate change; Grazing; Herbivory; Phenology; Salix polaris; Sitobion calvulum; Svalbard; Trophic mismatch

Indexed keywords

APHID; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GRAZING PRESSURE; GROWING SEASON; HERBIVORE; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WATERFOWL;

ARCTIC; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ANSER; APHIDIDAE; BRANTA LEUCOPSIS; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; SALIX; SALIX POLARIS; SITOBION; THORACICA; VERTEBRATA;

ANIMAL; APHID; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GOOSE; GRAZING; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SALIX POLARIS; SEASON; SITOBION CALVULUM; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN; TEMPERATURE; TROPHIC MISMATCH; WILLOW;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAZING; HERBIVORY; PHENOLOGY; SALIX POLARIS; SITOBION CALVULUM; SVALBARD; TROPHIC MISMATCH;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; ARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEESE; HERBIVORY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SALIX; SEASONS; SVALBARD; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84887421819     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12284     Document Type: Article

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