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Katarina Hedlund. Foto.

Katarina Hedlund

Professor

Katarina Hedlund. Foto.

Food web assembly in isolated habitats: A study from recently emerged nunataks, Iceland

Författare

  • Maria Ingimarsdottir
  • Jörgen Ripa
  • Olof Birna Magnusdottir
  • Katarina Hedlund

Summary, in English

Allochthonous arthropods can sustain a local food web on seemingly barren land, but are nevertheless often neglected in studies of community assembly. In the present study, we investigated primary food web assembly on nunataks (ice-free areas) in a retreating glacier in Iceland. Nunataks enable studies that take into account both the temporal factor of the assembly and the influx of allochthonous organisms. Arthropods were collected on sites of different age on five nunataks younger than 70 years, as well as the youngest parts of one old nunatak. The youngest sites had no vegetation and were dominated by detritivores and predators along with allochthonous arthropods. The arthropod biomass, that was considered established, increased with vegetation cover and site age but also differed among nunataks. To investigate whether or not the assembly of arthropods was consistent with the predictions of assembly rules, we tested whether, (1) the proportion of each trophic level changed non-randomly, (2) predator-prey ratio remained constant, and (3) larger species replaced smaller ones. We could only verify that proportions of trophic levels changed non-randomly. As assembly rules only apply for established organisms, it is possible that difficulties in determining whether e. g. generalist predators were established or not may affect the outcome of analyses of assembly rules. It is thus important to be aware that unintentional inclusion of allochthonous arthropods in models of community assembly may affect whether or not the community can be explained and predicted by assembly rules.

Avdelning/ar

  • Biodiversitet
  • Evolutionär ekologi
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Markgruppen
  • Teoretisk populationsekologi och evolution

Publiceringsår

2013

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

174-183

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volym

14

Issue

2

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Ecology

Nyckelord

  • Allochthonous material
  • Arthropods
  • Assembly rules
  • Biomass
  • Colonisation
  • Community assembly

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Soil Ecology
  • Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1618-0089