Herbivores in Arctic ecosystems: Effects of climate change and implications for carbon and nutrient cycling

AM Koltz, L Gough, JR McLaren - … of the New York Academy of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Arctic terrestrial herbivores influence tundra carbon and nutrient dynamics through their
consumption of resources, waste production, and habitat‐modifying behaviors. The strength …

[HTML][HTML] Biting insects in a rapidly changing Arctic

AM Koltz, LE Culler - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Biting insects are important pests and vectors of disease in the Arctic.•Arctic
climate change affects biting insect abundances and population dynamics.•Data on …

Climate warming restructures food webs and carbon flow in high-latitude ecosystems

PJ Manlick, NL Perryman, AM Koltz, JA Cook… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Rapid warming of high-latitude ecosystems is increasing microbial activity and accelerating
the decomposition of permafrost soils. This proliferation of microbial energy could restructure …

Invertebrate functional traits and terrestrial nutrient cycling: Insights from a global meta‐analysis

MA McCary, OJ Schmitz - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Functional traits are useful for characterizing variation in community and ecosystem
dynamics. Most advances in trait‐based ecology to date centre on plant functional traits …

Warming reverses top-down effects of predators on belowground ecosystem function in Arctic tundra

AM Koltz, AT Classen, JP Wright - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Predators can disproportionately impact the structure and function of ecosystems relative to
their biomass. These effects may be exacerbated under warming in ecosystems like the …

Accounting for species interactions is necessary for predicting how arctic arthropod communities respond to climate change

N Abrego, T Roslin, T Huotari, Y Ji, NM Schmidt… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species interactions are known to structure ecological communities. Still, the influence of
climate change on biodiversity has primarily been evaluated by correlating individual …

Differential arthropod responses to warming are altering the structure of Arctic communities

AM Koltz, NM Schmidt, TT Høye - Royal Society Open …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The Arctic is experiencing some of the fastest rates of warming on the planet. Although many
studies have documented responses to such warming by individual species, the …

Ammonium loading disturbed the microbial food webs in biofilms attached to submersed macrophyte Vallisneria natans

L Yan, X Mu, B Han, S Zhang, C Qiu… - Science of The Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The knowledge about the impacts of ammonium loading on microbial food webs in biofilms
attached to submersed macrophytes is limited. In the present study, Illumina sequencing …

Status and trends of terrestrial arthropod abundance and diversity in the North Atlantic region of the Arctic

MAK Gillespie, M Alfredsson, IC Barrio, JJ Bowden… - Ambio, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) provides an
opportunity to improve our knowledge of Arctic arthropod diversity, but initial baseline …

Earlier springs enable high-Arctic wolf spiders to produce a second clutch

TT Høye, JC Kresse, AM Koltz… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Spiders at southern latitudes commonly produce multiple clutches, but this has not been
observed at high latitudes where activity seasons are much shorter. Yet the timing of …