[HTML][HTML] Warming shifts the biomass distribution of soil microarthropod communities

MP Thakur, BD Sigurðsson, P Sigurðsson… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate warming is often more detrimental to large body sized organisms than small body
sized organisms. Yet, how such differential effects of warming at organismal levels affect …

Diurnal temperature variation impacts energetics but not reproductive effort across seasons in a temperate dung beetle

JM Fleming, KE Marshall, AJ Coverley, KS Sheldon - Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature varies on multiple timescales and ectotherms must adjust to these changes to
survive. These adjustments may lead to energetic trade‐offs between self‐maintenance and …

Paraquat is toxic to the soil-dwelling arthropod, Folsomia candida (Collembola: Isotomidae), and has potential effects on its Wolbachia endosymbiont

MCE Ward, MC Barrios, AM Fallon - Journal of Invertebrate Pathology, 2023 - Elsevier
The springtail, Folsomia candida, is a soil arthropod commonly used to evaluate
environmental toxins. Conflicting data on the toxicity of the herbicide paraquat prompted re …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature-size responses during ontogeny are independent of progenitors' thermal environments

G Martínez-De León, M Fahrni, MP Thakur - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Background Warming generally induces faster developmental and growth rates, resulting in
smaller asymptotic sizes of adults in warmer environments (a pattern known as the …