Temperature and nutrition are amongst the most influential environmental determinants of
Darwinian fitness in ectotherms. Since the ongoing climate warming is known to alter …

Nutrition dictates nearly all biological processes and determines Darwinian fitness in all
living organisms, including insects. Research on insect nutrition has a long history in the …

Abstract Drosophila melanogaster Meigen (Diptera: Drosophilidae) is a key model insect for
studying life span and aging. Many laboratory strains of D. melanogaster are currently used …

Abstract Development of a biological control program for invasive Phagmites australis
australis in North America required 20 years of careful research, and consideration of …

Behavioral ecology and nutritional ecology share a common interest in the adaptive basis of
animal behavior, yet the two fields have often progressed in isolation, each with its own …

Animals must acquire an ideal amount and balance of macronutrients to optimize their
performance, health and fitness. The nutritional landscape provides an integrative …

There is increasing evidence to show that the environment experienced by fathers can have
intergenerational paternal effects on the phenotype of offspring. Paternal effects can be …

Prey proteins and lipids greatly impact predator life-history traits. However, life-history
plasticity offers predators the opportunity to tune the life-history traits in response to the …

Nutrition is one of the underlying factors necessary for the expression of life-histories and
fitness across the tree of life. In recent decades, the geometric framework (GF) has become a …

The black soldier fly (BSF), Hermetia illucens (Diptera: Stratiomyidae), has become one of
the most economically important insects that can be a sustainable replacement for traditional …