Functional diversity and community assembly of river invertebrates show globally consistent responses to decreasing glacier cover

• Published in: Nature ecology & evolution Vol. 2; no. 2; pp. 325 - 333
• Main Authors: Brown, Lee E., Khamis, Kieran, Wilkes, Martin, Blaen, Phillip, Brittain, John E., Carrivick, Jonathan L., Fell, Sarah, Friberg, Nikolai, Füreder, Leopold, Gislason, Gisli M., Hainie, Sarah, Hannah, David M., James, William H. M., Lencioni, Valeria, Olafsson, Jon S., Robinson, Christopher T., Saltveit, Svein J., Thompson, Craig, Milner, Alexander M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.02.2018; Nature Publishing Group; Springer Nature
• Subjects: 631/158/2459; 631/158/851; 631/158/852; Animals; Assembly; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biological and Physical Anthropology; Dispersal; Ecological function; Ecology; Ecosystem; Environmental changes; Europe; Evolutionary Biology; Functionals; Glaciers; Global Warming; Ice Cover; Invertebrates; Invertebrates - physiology; Life Sciences; New Zealand; North America; Paleontology; Rivers; Zoology; New Zealand; North America; Europe

Global change threatens invertebrate biodiversity and its central role in numerous ecosystem functions and services. Functional trait analyses have been advocated to uncover global mechanisms behind biodiversity responses to environmental change, but the application of this approach for invertebrate...