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Arctic chironomids of the northwest North Atlantic reflect environmental and biogeographic gradients
Title Arctic chironomids of the northwest North Atlantic reflect environmental and biogeographic gradients Author info Andrew S. Medeiros ... [et al.] Author Medeiros Andrew S. (10%)
Co-authors Milošević Djuradj (8%)
Francis Donna R. (8%)
Maddison Eleanor (8%)
Woodroffe Sarah (8%)
Long Anthony A. (8%)
Walker Ian (8%)
Hamerlík Ladislav 1974- (8%) UMBFP09 - Katedra biológie a environmentálnych štúdií
Quinlan Roberto (8%)
Langdon Peter G. (8%)
Brodersen Klaus Peter (8%)
Axford Yarrow (10%)
Source document Journal of Biogeography. Vol. 48, no. 3 (2021), pp. 1-15. - Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2021 Keywords vodné ekosystémy - water ecosystems životné prostredie - environment biogeografia - biogeography Chironomids Form. Descr. články - journal articles Language English Country United States of America Annotation Aim: While we understand broad climate drivers of insect distributions throughout the Arctic, less is known about the role of spatial processes in determining these relationships. As such, there is a need to understand how spatial controls may influence our interpretations of chironomid environment relationships. Here, we evaluated whether the distribution of chironomids followed spatial gradients, or were primarily controlled by environmental factors. Location: Eastern Canadian Arctic, Greenland, Iceland. Taxon: Non-biting midges (Chironomidae). Methods: We examined chironomid assemblages from 239 lakes in the western North Atlantic Arctic region (specifically from the Arctic Archipelago of Canada, two parts of west Greenland (the southwest and central west) and northwest Iceland). We used a combination of unconstrained ordination (Self Organizing Maps); a simple method with only one data matrix (community data), and constrained ordination (Redundancy Analysis); a canonical ordination with two datasets where we extracted structure of community related to environmental data. These methods allowed us to model chironomid assemblages across a large bioregional dimension and identify specific differences between regions that were defined by common taxa represented across all regions in high frequencies, as well as rare taxa distinctive to each region found in low frequencies. We then evaluated the relative importance of spatial processes versus local environmental factors. Results: We find that environmental controls explained the largest amount of variation in chironomid assemblages within each region, and that spatial controls are only significant when crossing between regions. Broad-scale biogeographic effects on chironomid distributions are reflected by the distinct differences among chironomid assemblages of Iceland, central-west Greenland, and eastern Canada, defined by the presence of certain common and low-frequency, rare taxa for each region. Environmental gradients, especially temperature, defined species distributions within each region, whereas spatial processes combine with environmental gradients in determining what mix of species characterizes each broad and geographically distinct island region in our study. URL Link na plný text Public work category ADC No. of Archival Copy 49907 Catal.org. BB301 - Univerzitná knižnica Univerzity Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici Database xpca - PUBLIKAČNÁ ČINNOSŤ References PERIODIKÁ-Súborný záznam periodika 
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