期刊
POLAR BIOLOGY
卷 32, 期 3, 页码 453-462出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-008-0540-y
关键词
Arctic tundra; Climate change; Heatwave; Qeqertarsuaq; Testate amoebae
资金
- Scientific Research, Flanders (FWO, Belgium) [G.0357.02]
- National Science Foundation Denmark [21-02-0515]
Climate warming is likely to have pronounced impacts on soil biota in arctic ecosystems. In a warmer climate, heatwaves are more frequent and intense, but it is unclear to what extent soil communities are buffered against this. We studied the effects of an artificially induced heatwave on the structure of testate amoebae communities in dry heath tundra in Qeqertarsuaq (Disko Island, West Greenland) during the summer of 2003. While the heatwave was severe enough to induce significant leaf mortality in the aboveground vegetation, overall testate amoebae abundance did not react to the difference in temperature. However, in the heated plots transient shifts in species populations occurred during the exposure, followed by increases in species richness weeks after the heatwave had ended. The most important taxa appearing after the heating period belonged to bacterivorous genera, in agreement with a transient peak in bacterial colony forming units, caused by the heatwave. Lobose testate amoebae resisted the heating and its associated desiccation better than their filose counterparts.
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