The origin, incidence, and consequences of reproductive senescence vary greatly across
the tree of life. In vertebrates, research on reproductive senescence has been mainly …

Flourishing recent comparative studies on senescence have revealed an uncovered
diversity across the tree of life of the shapes of the age trajectories of mortality (actuarial …

Reproductive senescence is an age‐associated decline in reproductive performance, which
often arises as a trade‐off between current and future reproduction. Given that mortality is …

The last decades have seen a burst in the number of empirical studies documenting
reproductive ageing (ie the decrease in reproductive performance with increasing age; also …

The protection conferred by a first infection upon a second pathogenic exposure (ie. immune
priming) is an emergent research topic in the field of invertebrate immunity. Immune priming …

We tested independently the influences of increasing temperature and decreasing moisture
on life history and physiological traits in the arthropod Armadillidium vulgare. Both …

The ladybird beetles Cheilomenes sexmaculata and Propylea dissecta serve as effective bio-
control agents, preying upon aphid populations and thereby mitigating plant damage. These …

Paternal age and past mating effort by males are often confounded, which can affect our
understanding of a father's age effects. To our knowledge, only a few studies have …

Individual survival and offspring recruitment are two fundamental parameters of population
dynamics. It is therefore important to understand age-related changes in mortality and in …

Predation risk–like most stressors–can be broken down into multiple components, such as
intensity, duration, and timing. This dissertation approached predation risk from each of …