Water temperature is one of the main abiotic factors affecting the structure and functioning of
aquatic ecosystems and its alteration can have important effects on biological communities …

Plastic responses figure prominently in discussions on insect adaptation to climate change.
Here we review the different types of plastic responses and whether they contribute much to …

1. In the context of global change, modifications in winter conditions may disrupt the
seasonal phenology patterns of organisms, modify the synchrony of closely interacting …

Despite claims of an insect decline worldwide, our understanding of extinction risk in insects
is incomplete. Using bionomic data of all odonate (603 dragonflies and damselflies) North …

Many organisms have geographical distributions extending from the tropics to near polar
regions or can experience up to 30° C temperature variation within the lifespan of an …

Thermal performance curves enable physiological constraints to be incorporated in
predictions of biological responses to shifts in mean temperature. But do thermal …

Over the last few decades, biologists have made substantial progress in understanding
relationships between changing climates and organism performance. Much of this work has …

Organisms are regularly subjected to abiotic stressors related to increasing anthropogenic
activities, including chemicals and climatic changes that induce major stresses. Based on …

We integrate field data and phylogenetic comparative analyses to investigate causes of
body size evolution and stasis in an old insect order: odonates (“dragonflies and …

Many investigators have described a footprint of global environmental change in
macroecological trends across multiple taxa. However, little comparative analysis has been …