For many years, the Weihe River Basin (WRB) has struggled to achieve a balance between
ecological protection and economic growth. Constructing an Ecological Security Pattern …

A quantitative analysis of wing variation in grasshoppers can help us to understand how
environmental heterogeneity affects the phenotypic patterns of insects. In this study …

The complex forces that shape butterfly wings have long been a subject of experimental and
comparative research. Butterflies use their wings for flight, camouflage, mate recognition …

Global warming has been identified as one of the main drivers of population decline in
insect pollinators. One aspect of the insect life cycle that would be particularly sensitive to …

Despite plenty of data in insects shape variation, papers on environmental factors effect on
such variation are scarce and in ground beetles are practically absent. The aim of this …

China geography, geology, climate, ecology, and cultural landscape are bounded to the
north and south by the Qinling Mountains. It has several challenges, including the need to …

Background Culex nigripalpus has a wide geographical distribution and is found in North
and South America. Females are considered primary vectors for several arboviruses …

The study of phenotypic changes in organisms at different organizational levels (population,
community, and ecosystem) in combination with genetic and genomic tools have helped …

The wing shape of butterflies can be used as a character to measure individual butterfly and
population-level differences in adult forms. We conducted a geometric morphometric …

The loss and fragmentation of natural habitats due to agricultural intensification have a
strong negative impact on farmland biodiversity. The concomitant isolation of essential …