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 …

Impacts of altered precipitation regimes on soil communities and biogeochemistry in arid and semi‐arid ecosystems

UN Nielsen, BA Ball - Global change biology, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Altered precipitation patterns resulting from climate change will have particularly significant
consequences in water‐limited ecosystems, such as arid to semi‐arid ecosystems, where …

A global synthesis of biodiversity responses to glacier retreat

S Cauvy-Fraunié, O Dangles - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019‏ - nature.com
Glaciers cover about 10% of the Earth's land area but they are retreating rapidly and many
will disappear within decades. Glacier retreat is a worldwide phenomenon increasing the …

Soil microbial responses to increased moisture and organic resources along a salinity gradient in a polar desert

DJ Van Horn, JG Okie, HN Buelow… - Applied and …, 2014‏ - journals.asm.org
Microbial communities in extreme environments often have low diversity and specialized
physiologies suggesting a limited resistance to change. The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) …

Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of continental Antarctic soils

DA Cowan, TP Makhalanyane, PG Dennis… - Frontiers in …, 2014‏ - frontiersin.org
The Antarctica Dry Valleys are regarded as the coldest hyperarid desert system on Earth.
While a wide variety of environmental stressors including very low minimum temperatures …

The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate biodiversity of the archipelagoes of the Barents Sea; Svalbard, Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya

SJ Coulson, P Convey, K Aakra, L Aarvik… - Soil Biology and …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Arctic terrestrial ecosystems are generally considered to be species poor, fragile and often
isolated. Nonetheless, their intricate complexity, especially that of the invertebrate …

Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity in a changing world

P Convey - Polar Biology, 2011‏ - Springer
Recent analyses of Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity data, in combination with molecular
biological studies, have created a new paradigm that long-term persistence and regional …

The McMurdo Dry Valleys: a landscape on the threshold of change

AG Fountain, JS Levy, MN Gooseff, D Van Horn - Geomorphology, 2014‏ - Elsevier
Field observations of coastal and lowland regions in the McMurdo Dry Valleys suggest they
are on the threshold of rapid topographic change, in contrast to the high elevation upland …

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

UN Nielsen, DH Wall - Ecology letters, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
The polar regions are experiencing rapid climate change with implications for terrestrial
ecosystems. Here, despite limited knowledge, we make some early predictions on soil …

Nematode biomass changes along an elevational gradient are trophic group dependent but independent of body size

G Li, RA Wilschut, S Luo, H Chen, X Wang… - Global Change …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Aboveground, large and higher trophic‐level organisms often respond more strongly to
environmental changes than small and lower trophic‐level organisms. However, whether …