Many researchers have questioned the ability of biota to adapt to rapid anthropogenic
environmental shifts. Here, we synthesize emerging genomic evidence for rapid insect …

Climate change is expected to impact the global distribution and diversity of arthropods, with
warmer temperatures forcing species to relocate, acclimate, adapt, or go extinct. The Arctic …

Deforestation is considered a major threat to biodiversity across many parts of the globe, but
the biological impacts of this dramatic ecosystem disturbance often remain incompletely …

In today's rapidly changing world, it is critical to examine how animal populations will
respond to severe environmental change. Following events such as pollution or …

Species' with more limited dispersal and consequently less gene flow are more likely to form
new spatially segregated species and thus contribute disproportionally to endemic biota and …

Quantifying rarity at the intraspecific level is an important task for conservation biologists
because rare phenotypes have a higher extinction risk than common ones. However …

A vast majority of insects can fly, but some cannot. Flight generally increases how far an
individual can travel to access mates, enables the exploitation of additional food resources …

Animals on islands typically depart from their mainland relatives in assorted aspects of their
biology. Because they seem to occur in concert, and to some extent evolve convergently in …

Natural selection along elevational gradients has potential to drive predictable adaptations
across distinct lineages, but the extent of such repeated evolution remains poorly studied for …

Background Insects have exceptionally fast smelling capabilities, and some can track the
temporal structure of odour plumes at rates above 100 Hz. It has been hypothesized that this …