In seasonal environments, many animals, including insects, enter dormancy, where they are
limited to a fixed energy budget. The inability to replenish energetic stores during these …

Rising water temperatures in rivers due to climate change are already having observable
impacts on river ecosystems. Warming water has both direct and indirect impacts on aquatic …

Seasons impose different selection pressures on organisms through contrasting
environmental conditions. How such seasonal evolutionary conflict is resolved in organisms …

Temperature influences the rate of most biological processes. Nonlinearities in the thermal
reaction norms of such processes complicate intuitive predictions of how ectothermic …

Dramatic insect declines, and their consequences for ecosystems globally, have received
considerable attention recently. Yet, it is still poorly known if ecological and life‐history traits …

Conserving energy through winter is important for the fitness of temperate insects. While
insects can use buffered microhabitats, metabolic suppression or decreases in the thermal …

Phenotypic plasticity is produced and maintained by processes regulating the transcriptome.
While differential gene expression is among the most important of these processes …

Insects have the capacity to significantly modify their metabolic rate according to
environmental conditions and physiological requirement. Consequently, the respiratory …

Winter diapause in insects is commonly terminated through cold exposure, which, like
vernalization in plants, prevents development before spring arrives. Currently, quantitative …

Heat extremes have become the new norm in the Anthropocene. Their potential to trigger
major ecological responses is widely acknowledged, but their unprecedented severity …