The relevance of considering environmental variability for understanding and predicting
biological responses to environmental changes has resulted in a recent surge in variability …

Aquatic ecosystems are threatened by eutrophication from nutrient pollution. In lakes,
eutrophication causes a plethora of deleterious effects, such as harmful algal blooms, fish …

Predicting the implications of ongoing ocean climate warming demands a better
understanding of how short‐term thermal variability impacts marine ectotherms, particularly …

Consumer metabolism controls the energy uptake from the environment and its allocation to
biomass production. In natural ecosystems, available energy in food often fails to predict …

Organisms exhibit reversible physiological adjustments as a response to rapidly changing
environments. Yet such plasticity of the phenotype is gradual and may lag behind …

Animals face strong environmental variability even on short time scales particularly in
shallow coastal habitats, forcing them to permanently adjust their metabolism. Respiration …

The biogeography and genetic structure of aquatic zooplankton populations remains
understudied in the Eastern Palearctic, especially the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Here, we …

Biochemical food quality constraints affect the performance of consumers and mediate trait
variation among and within consumer species. To assess inter-and intraspecific differences …

Herbivorous zooplankton potentially encounter temporal dietary heterogeneity in sterol, an
essential group of lipids, over short or long time scales. There are a few studies showing that …

Variability in plant traits such as nutrients and defences can challenge insect herbivores
searching for a host plant. Cultivar mixtures are designed to harness this variability to reduce …