Traits are key for understanding the environmental responses and ecological roles of
organisms. Trait approaches to functional ecology are well established for plants, whereas …

Dung beetles have key roles in ecosystems including accelerating dung decomposition,
improving nutrient cycling and influencing physical (such as structure) and chemical (such …

Changing climates are driving population declines in diverse animals worldwide. Winter
conditions may play an important role in these declines but are often overlooked. Animals …

Simple Summary The fall webworm, Hyphantria cunea (Drury)(Lepidoptera: Erebidae,
Arctiidae), is a major invasive pest of China. Although it has spread from Dandong City …

Temperature varies on multiple timescales and ectotherms must adjust to these changes to
survive. These adjustments may lead to energetic trade‐offs between self‐maintenance and …

Abstract Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) frequently traverse agricultural matrices
in search of ephemeral dung resources and spend extended periods of time burrowing in …

Climate warming can cause arthropods to express plastic and/or evolved changes in
morphology. Previous studies have demonstrated that body sizes of Arctic butterflies are …

Background Nutrient availability is among the most widespread means by which
environmental variability affects developmental outcomes. Because almost all cells within an …

The impact of global changes on populations may not be necessarily uniform across a
species' range. Here, we aim at comparing the phenotypic and transcriptomic response to …

Temperature profoundly impacts insect development, but plasticity of reproductive
behaviours may mediate the impacts of temperature change on earlier life stages. Few …