Insect colours assist in body protection, signalling, and physiological adaptations. Colours
also convey multiple channels of information. These channels are valuable for species …

Understanding the how behind the polyphyletic trait of fungal thermotolerance has important
implications to both medical and industrial pursuits. In this review, our goal is to synthesize …

Phenology, the seasonal timing of life events, is an essential component of diversity
patterns. However, the mechanisms involved are complex and understudied. Body colour …

Predicting the effects of climate warming on insect pollinators is challenging. Insects are
small, mobile, and can be excellent thermoregulators. We describe behavioral and …

Biological rules describe general morphological, structural and genetic patterns within and
across species. Within these, ecogeographical rules correlate phenotypic variation of …

Organisms use color to serve a variety of biological functions, including camouflage, mate
attraction and thermoregulation. The potential adaptive role of color is often investigated by …

Small-scale studies have shown that colour lightness variation can have important
physiological implications in ectotherms, with darker species having greater heating rates …

Previous macroecological studies have suggested that larger and darker insects are favored
in cold environments and that the importance of body size and color for the absorption of …

In water, transparency seems an ideal concealment strategy, as testified by the variety of
transparent aquatic organisms. By contrast, transparency is nearly absent on land, with the …

Climatic gradients frequently predict large‐scale ecogeographical patterns in animal
coloration, but the underlying causes are often difficult to disentangle. We examined …