Researchers have discovered significant variations in the ability of different UK butterfly species to maintain a suitable body temperature. Species that rely most on finding a suitably shady location to keep cool are at the greatest risk of population decline. The results predict how climate change might impact butterfly communities, and will inform conservation strategies to protect them. The...
We investigate the limitation of arthropod communities in a multi-guild analysis of forest canopies using standardized whole-forest sampling across multiple continents.
Results of a unique compilation of 161 multidecadal biodiversity time series covering 6,200 marine, terrestrial, and freshwater species from 21 European countries were published in a July issue of Nature Communications.
Microbial symbionts commonly confer important modifications on their insect hosts. We tested this using pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) and their facultative bacterial symbiont Spiroplasma.
The article in Biological Reviews highlights the importance of ants and termites for ecosystem processes and summarize the available literature about the interactions between these two insect groups. Predatory ants seems to be able to regulate termite populations and thus affect decomposition of plant-derived organic matter.
In a comprehensive study published in Heredity, we deciphered the origin and evolution of unique system of multiple sex chromosomes in three cryptic species of Leptidea wood white butterflies.
This review in the special issue of Advances in Ecological Research summarizes existing arthropod monitoring schemes and consider some innovative avenues for future research that promise to improve monitoring of insects in tropical ecosystems.
This special issue of Advances in Ecological Research brings together papers describing these anthropogenic threats, including the impacts of habitat change, altered fire regimes and climate change.
Our study published in prestigious journal Molecular Biology and Evolution thoroughly describes evolution of insect insulin receptors, origin of two groups of decoys of insulin receptors and experimentally explores role of insulin signaling in wing polymorphism.
This article explores an intriguing behavioral program enabling the giant silkworm (Hyalophora cecropia) to successfully construct its complex silk cocoon to survive the harsh overwintering conditions.
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