▪ Abstract Host plant quality is a key determinant of the fecundity of herbivorous insects.
Components of host plant quality (such as carbon, nitrogen, and defensive metabolites) …

▪ Abstract Inherited environmental effects are those components of the phenotype that are
derived from either parent, apart from nuclear genes. Inherited environmental effects arise …

Populations and communities of organisms are influenced by a host of abiotic and biotic
factors. Climate, nutrients, natural enemies (including parasites and pathogens), symbionts …

" Dynamic Energy Budget (DEB) theory is a formal theory for the uptake and use of
substrates (food, nutrients and light) by organisms and their use for maintenance, growth …

SYNOPSIS. Maternal effects comprise a class of phenotypic effects that parents have on
phenotypes of their offspring that are unrelated to the offspring's own genotype. Although …

Summary 1 Genetic and environmental maternal effects can play an important role in the
evolutionary dynamics of a population: they may have a substantial impact on the rate and …

Evidence from wildlife and human populations indicates that conditions during early
development can have marked effects on the subsequent performance of individuals and …

Most mathematical models of disease assume that transmission is linearly dependent on the
densities of host and pathogen. Recent data for animal diseases, however, have cast doubt …

The adaptive value of carry-over effects, the persistence of induced phenotypes for several
generations despite the change in the conditions that first induced these phenotypes, is …

Low—density populations of gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, were studied over a 10—yr
period in Massachusetts. Increases in gypsy moth density were associated with declines in …