Highlights•Temperature affects directly life-history traits of parasitoids and indirectly
communities.•Longitudinal gradients are understudied but well correlated to winter …

Climate and land use change can alter the incidence and strength of biotic interactions, with
important effects on the distribution, abundance and function of species. To assess the …

Simple Summary During biological invasions, insect pest outbreaks often occur because
they escape the control of natural enemies from their place of origin. However, some natural …

The advent of citizen science, the free availability of information and literature, and even
social media, have greatly advanced our knowledge on insect fauna in the Low Countries …

Parasitism is a key factor in the population dynamics of many herbivorous insects, although
its impact on host populations varies widely, for instance, along latitudinal and altitudinal …

In this work, we investigate the native parasitoid community colonising galls by an invasive
pest: the oriental chestnut gall wasp (OCGW), Dryocosmus kuriphilus (Hymenoptera; …

" Gábor Lövei's scientific communication course for students and scientists explores the
intricacies involved in publishing primary scientific papers, and has been taught in more …

Pisoxylon amenkei is a specie of solitary wasp that builds its nests in pre-existing cavities; it
has only been recorded nesting in the Araucaria forest, one of the Atlantic forest …

1. Species interactions are fundamental to the stability and productivity of ecosystems. To
improve our capacity to predict and understand how climate change shapes the distribution …

The mango seed weevil Sternochetus mangiferae (Fabricius) is distributed across the major
mango‐producing areas of the world and causes significant economic losses of mango fruit …