Traits underlie organismal responses to their environment and are essential to predict
community responses to environmental conditions under global change. Species differ in life …

Urbanization has driven one of the most substantial transformations in water bodies
exposing groups such as aquatic insects to new challenging conditions. Some odonate …

Determining which traits allow species to live at higher elevations is essential to
understanding the forces that shape montane biodiversity. For the many animals that rely on …

Background Evolutionary processes can cause strong spatial genetic signatures, such as
local loss of genetic diversity, or conflicting histories from mitochondrial versus nuclear …

Aim Global interspecific body size distributions have been suggested to be shaped by
selection pressures arising from biotic and abiotic factors such as temperature, predation …

Discussion regarding the gaps of knowledge on Odonata is common in the literature. Such
gaps are even greater when dealing with basic biological data for biodiverse environments …

Combining scientific data over a long-time period is necessary for generating large-scale
datasets, which are an essential component of comparative analysis for understanding …

Insect behavioral ecologists are not routinely archiving their behavioral media files and
natural history observations. This is especially problematic because most behaviors are not …

Critical gaps in understanding how species respond to environmental change limit our
capacity to address conservation risks in a timely way. Here, we examine the direct and …

Life-cycle stages are not always capable of evolving independently from each other, but it
remains unclear if evolving to meet the demands of one stage actually imposes costs on …