Impacts of elevated temperature on ant species, communities and ecological roles at two temperate forests in Eastern North America

Dunn, Robert¹ 

[1] North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States)

关键词: climate change;    ants;    insects;    models;    experiments;   

DOI  :  10.2172/1164868
RP-ID  :  DOE-Final--08ER64510
PID  :  OSTI ID: 1164868

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

Over the course of five years we have established a long-term array of warming chambers at Duke and Harvard Forest that simulate future conditions with regard to temperature. In these chambers, we have studied, ants, other animal taxa, fungi, bacteria and plants and their responses to the treatments. We have coupled these studies with lab experiments, large-scale observations, and models to contextualize our results. Finally, we have developed integrative models of the future distribution of species and their consequences as a result of warming in eastern North America and more generally.