Insects in fluctuating thermal environments

H Colinet, BJ Sinclair, P Vernon… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
All climate change scenarios predict an increase in both global temperature means and the
magnitude of seasonal and diel temperature variation. The nonlinear relationship between …

What can plasticity contribute to insect responses to climate change?

CM Sgrò, JS Terblanche… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Ecological and evolutionary impacts of changing climatic variability

DP Vázquez, E Gianoli, WF Morris… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
While average temperature is likely to increase in most locations on Earth, many places will
simultaneously experience higher variability in temperature, precipitation, and other climate …

[PDF][PDF] Environmental effects on insects and their population dynamics

AM Khaliq, M Javed, M Sohail… - Journal of Entomology …, 2014 - entomoljournal.com
Insects are powerful and rapid adaptive organisms with high fecundity rate and short life
cycle. Due to human interruption in agro-ecosystem and global climatic variations are …

On the development of a predictive functional trait approach for studying terrestrial arthropods

PM Brousseau, D Gravel, IT Handa - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The characterization of ecological communities with functional traits allows to consider
simultaneously the ability of a species to survive and reproduce in an environment, its …

[HTML][HTML] Insect behavioral restraint and adaptation strategies under heat stress: An inclusive review

MA Bodlah, J Iqbal, A Ashiq, I Bodlah, S Jiang… - Journal of the Saudi …, 2023 - Elsevier
In fluctuating thermal conditions, the survival challenge for insects is particularly difficult
because their physiological activities depend upon environmental temperature. The extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature effects in single or combined with chemicals to the aquatic organisms: an overview of thermo-chemical stress

SSUH Kazmi, YYL Wang, YE Cai, Z Wang - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Climatic change (global warming) not only limited to the terrestrial environmental variations
but also transforming the aquatic environments. Recent studies have reported that both …

Continent‐wide parallel urban evolution of increased heat tolerance in a common moth

T Merckx, ME Nielsen, T Kankaanpää… - Evolutionary …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization and its urban‐heat‐island effect (UHI) have expanding footprints worldwide.
The UHI means that urban habitats experience a higher mean and more frequent extreme …

[HTML][HTML] Antioxidant Enzymes and Heat Shock Protein Genes from Liposcelis bostrychophila Are Involved in Stress Defense upon Heat Shock

ZQ Miao, YQ Tu, PY Guo, W He, TX Jing, JJ Wang… - Insects, 2020 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Liposcelis bostrychophila is one of the most serious pests of stored
commodities among the psocids. Controlling psocids mainly relies on chemical insecticides …

[HTML][HTML] Heated communities: large inter-and intraspecific variation in heat tolerance across trophic levels of a soil arthropod community

O Franken, M Huizinga, J Ellers, MP Berg - Oecologia, 2018 - Springer
Temperature extremes are predicted to increase in frequency, intensity and duration under
global warming and are believed to significantly affect community composition and …