Is light pollution driving moth population declines? A review of causal mechanisms across the life cycle

DH Boyes, DM Evans, R Fox… - Insect Conservation …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The night‐time environment is increasingly being lit, often by broad‐spectrum lighting, and
there is growing evidence that artificial light at night (ALAN) has consequences for …

Evolution of ecological niche breadth

JP Sexton, J Montiel, JE Shay… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
How ecological niche breadth evolves is central to adaptation and speciation and has been
a topic of perennial interest. Niche breadth evolution research has occurred within …

Causes and consequences of ontogenetic dietary shifts: a global synthesis using fish models

J Sánchez‐Hernández, AD Nunn, CE Adams… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Ontogenetic dietary shifts (ODSs), the changes in diet utilisation occurring over the life span
of an individual consumer, are widespread in the animal kingdom. Understanding ODSs …

Studying animal niches using bulk stable isotope ratios: an updated synthesis

ON Shipley, P Matich - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The development of the isotopic niche, an n-dimensional hypervolume (with n being the
number of isotopes) occupied by a population in delta space, has revolutionized the study of …

[HTML][HTML] Global meta-analysis reveals overall higher nocturnal than diurnal activity in insect communities

MKL Wong, RK Didham - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Insects sustain key ecosystem functions, but how their activity varies across the day–night
cycle and the underlying drivers are poorly understood. Although entomologists generally …

How intraspecific variation in seed‐dispersing animals matters for plants

R Zwolak - Biological Reviews, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Seed dispersal by animals is a complex phenomenon, characterized by multiple
mechanisms and variable outcomes. Most researchers approach this complexity by …

The relationship between trophic level and body size in fishes depends on functional traits

FW Keppeler, CG Montaña… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Predators typically are larger than their prey, and consequently, trophic level should
increase with body size. Whereas this relationship has helped in developing predictions …

Burgess Shale fossils illustrate the origin of the mandibulate body plan

C Aria, JB Caron - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Retracing the evolutionary history of arthropods has been one of the greatest challenges in
biology. During the past decade, phylogenetic analyses of morphological and molecular …

The selective drivers of allometry in sharks (Chondrichthyes: Elasmobranchii)

JH Gayford, DA Whitehead… - Zoological Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In addition to the selective importance of interspecific morphological variation, ontogenetic
morphological variation may reflect different selective regimes to which successive …

Foraging history of individual elephants using DNA metabarcoding

BA Gill, G Wittemyer, TE Cerling… - Royal Society …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Individual animals should adjust diets according to food availability. We used DNA
metabarcoding to construct individual-level dietary timeseries for elephants from two family …