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Local adaptation to host plants in herbivorous insects: A meta‐analysis

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Local adaptation, wherein populations are well‐adapted to local biotic and abiotic conditions, is a common outcome of natural selection and a driver of diversification.
Mariana Abarca, Shannon M. Murphy, Gina M. Wimp, Mattheau S. Comerford, Chase Ryan‐Embry, Dhaval K. Vyas, Macawan S. Luu, Mayra C. Vidal   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Herbivory enhances cadmium foraging in the invasive hyperaccumulating plant Phytolacca americana

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Biological invasions and heavy metal pollution are two pervasive environmental challenges threatening global ecosystems. While the elemental defence hypothesis posits that certain plants accumulate heavy metals to deter herbivores, it remains unclear whether invasive ...
Jingge Kuang, Zhili Pan, Linrui He, Ziyan Zhang, Evan Siemann, Yi Wang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plastic and adaptive mitochondrial responses help face hypoxia events in a freshwater fish

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Hypoxic events (i.e. reduction of dissolved oxygen in water) are natural events, which intensity and frequency have been amplified by human activities. As oxygen fuels aerobic metabolism, species unable to avoid those events must maintain their functions through ...
Eugénie Dereuder, Tiphaine Menguy, Antoine Stier, Katja Anttila, Amélie Crespel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hotter, faster, sicker? Warming shifts the cost of infection from individuals to populations

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
This study examines how temperature alters disease impacts across biological scales in a host–pathogen system. We found infected hosts appear healthiest at warm temperatures, yet populations suffer most. This suggests climate warming may intensify disease impacts for populations in ways traditional individual‐level virulence metrics fail to predict ...
Nathan J. Butterworth, Kerri J. Moore, Matthew D. Hall   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early‐life environment drives long‐term decrease in adult body mass in a wild bird population

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Using more than 90,000 body mass measures of adult and nestling great tits Parus major, we show that the 1 SD decline in adult mass between 1978 and 2024 is a consequence of changes in the environment (i.e. increase in population density) experienced at early life.
David López‐Idiáquez, Ella F. Cole, Devi Satarkar, Samuel J. Crofts, Keith McMahon, Ben C. Sheldon   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Critical constraints to ecological buffering in a rapidly changing Arctic: A long‐term seabird study

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Drawing on two decades of research in East Greenland, this study shows that little auks, key seabird indicators of Arctic ecosystem health, can adapt to rapid environmental change through behavioural flexibility. However, increasing storms and mercury pollution are pushing resilience to its limits, providing an early warning of broader Arctic ...
David Grémillet, Françoise Amélineau, Ann M. A. Harding, Jérôme Fort   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Building graduates’ political fluency through primary source case studies

Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract The need to improve students’ political fluency and produce graduates equipped for the ‘real world of policy‐making’ has led to the creation of an experimental course. In this course, students use Parliamentary primary source documents to track a policy issue through the political decision‐making process, identifying the factors impacting the ...
Lindy Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

Breeding on a Tropical Island Proves More Difficult Than Expected: The Ongoing Breeding Failure of Laysan Albatross on Clarion Island. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
Castillo-Guerrero JA, Castañeda-Castellanos SA, Portillo-Zavala DA, Hernández-Vázquez S, Fernández G.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
wiley   +1 more source

Variations in Soil Microbiome Assembly Determine Hatching Induction of the Carrot Cyst Nematode Heterodera carotae. [PDF]

Environ Microbiol
Biget M, Vannier N, Gazengel K, Marquer B, Linglin J, Langrume C, Porte C, Chéreau S, Fouville D, Fournet S, Lebreton L, Montarry J.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source