Climatic Impacts on Invertebrates as Food for Vertebrates
| Autor: | Jim O. Vafidis, Renata Medeiros Mirra, Robert J. Thomas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0106 biological sciences
Extinction 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Range (biology) Ecology food and beverages Climate change Context (language use) 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Geography Abundance (ecology) Local extinction Ecosystem sense organs skin and connective tissue diseases 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Trophic level |
| Zdroj: | Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates |
| Popis: | This chapter addresses the role of invertebrates as food resources for vertebrates, in the context of climate impacts across trophic levels. It outlines the major classes of responses to climate change that have been widely observed among vertebrates over recent decades: changes in abundance, changes in distribution, and changes in the timing of biological events. Changes in abundance at the local level can include instances of local extinction, and several instances, across a range of ecosystems, can be attributed to climate‐driven changes in trophic resources. Examples of global extinction that can be directly attributed to climate change are even more scarce than examples of local or regional extinction. Distributional changes can be manifested as horizontal geographical, or vertical, altitudinal and depth shifts, and invertebrate prey resources have been implicated in each of these contexts in a range of ecosystems. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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