Insects are the most diverse group of animals on Earth, but their small size and high diversity
have always made them challenging to study. Recent technological advances have the …

Highlights•The Arctic is ideally suited for studying arthropod responses to climate
change.•Arctic arthropods are responding rapidly and in diverse ways to climate …

For more than five decades, research has been conducted at Ny-Ålesund, in Svalbard,
Norway, to understand the structure and functioning of High-Arctic ecosystems and the …

Insects provide key pollination services in most terrestrial biomes, but this service depends
on a multistep interaction between insect and plant. An insect needs to visit a flower, receive …

Alpine plants complete their seasonal phenological cycle during two to three snow-free
months. Under climate change, snowmelt advances and the risk of summer droughts …

Climatic impacts are especially pronounced in the Arctic, which as a region is warming twice
as fast as the rest of the globe. Here, we investigate how mean climatic conditions and rates …

Insect–plant interactions are key determinants of plant and insect fitness, providing important
ecosystem services around the world—including the Arctic region. Recently, it has been …

Assessing the resilience of polar biota to climate change is essential for predicting the
effects of changing environmental conditions for ecosystems. Collembola are abundant in …

Special issue on species interactions, ecological networks and community dynamics:
untangling the entangled bank using molecular Page 1 P R IF Y S G O L B A N G O R / B A N G …

As the technology for mass identification of species is advancing rapidly, we developed a
field sampling method that takes advantage of the emerging possibilities of combining …