Antarctic environmental change and biological responses

P Convey, LS Peck - Science Advances, 2019 - science.org
Antarctica and the surrounding Southern Ocean are facing complex environmental change.
Their native biota has adapted to the region's extreme conditions over many millions of …

Insects as bioindicator: A hidden gem for environmental monitoring

S Chowdhury, VK Dubey, S Choudhury… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Environmental contamination research has been quite interesting in bioindicators recently.
The basic objective of bioindicator research is to find species that can reliably detect …

Small islands

LA Nurse, RF McLean, J Agard, LP Briguglio… - Climate change 2014 …, 2014 - hal.science
Current and future climate-related drivers of risk for small islands during the 21st century
include sea level rise (SLR), tropical and extratropical cyclones, increasing air and sea …

The spatial structure of Antarctic biodiversity

P Convey, SL Chown, A Clarke… - Ecological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns of environmental spatial structure lie at the heart of the most fundamental and
familiar patterns of diversity on Earth. Antarctica contains some of the strongest …

A meta-analysis of responses of soil biota to global change

JC Blankinship, PA Niklaus, BA Hungate - Oecologia, 2011 - Springer
Global environmental changes are expected to impact the abundance of plants and animals
aboveground, but comparably little is known about the responses of belowground …

Islands in the ice: Potential impacts of habitat transformation on Antarctic biodiversity

JR Lee, MJ Waterman, JD Shaw… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic biodiversity faces an unknown future with a changing climate. Most terrestrial biota
is restricted to limited patches of ice‐free land in a sea of ice, where they are adapted to the …

Climate change effects on soil microarthropod abundance and community structure

P Kardol, WN Reynolds, RJ Norby, AT Classen - Applied Soil Ecology, 2011 - Elsevier
Long-term ecosystem responses to climate change strongly depend on how the soil
subsystem and its inhabitants respond to these perturbations. Using open-top chambers, we …

Nitrogen inputs by marine vertebrates drive abundance and richness in Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems

S Bokhorst, P Convey, R Aerts - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Biodiversity is threatened by climate change and other human activities [1], but to assess
impacts, we also need to identify the current distribution of species on Earth. Predicting …

Climate change effects on insects: implications for crop protection and food security

HC Sharma - Journal of crop improvement, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Global warming and climate change will trigger major changes in diversity and abundance
of arthropods, geographical distribution of insect pests, insect population dynamics, insect …

Effects of warming and nitrogen deposition on CH4, CO2 and N2O emissions in alpine grassland ecosystems of the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Z Zhao, S Dong, X Jiang, S Liu, H Ji, Y Li, Y Han… - Science of the Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Increases in nitrogen (N) deposition along with climate warming can change the dynamics of
carbon and nitrogen in the soil, and alter greenhouse gases (GHGs) fluxes. To examine how …