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- Title
Will shrinking body size and increasing species diversity of crustaceans follow the warming of the Arctic littoral?
- Authors
Węsławski, Jan M.; Legeżyńska, Joanna; Włodarska‐Kowalczuk, Maria
- Abstract
Over thirty species of littoral marine Gammaridea occur along the coasts of the North Atlantic. From one to several species can coexist in a single region. There is an evident, inverse relationship between egg incubation time and temperature (from 14 to >120 days) and consequent trends in the size of the animals on reaching maturity (from 5 mm in warmer waters to 30 mm in the coldest ones) and in lifespan (from <6 months to >5 years). Littoral gammarids are a good example of the shrinking size effect of increasing temperatures and size‐related species diversity. In large species, the annual cohorts of the population (3–5 annual size groups) functionally replace the adults of smaller species. The ongoing warming of the European Arctic seas may extend the distribution limits of boreal species so that more Gammarus species may appear on northern coasts hitherto occupied by just one or at most two species.
- Subjects
ARCTIC regions; SPECIES diversity; EGG incubation; CRUSTACEA; GROUP size; MARINE biodiversity; LITTORAL zone; CALANUS; TEMPERATURE effect
- Publication
Ecology & Evolution (20457758), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 19, p10305
- ISSN
2045-7758
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ece3.6780