Life-history traits or “fitness components”—such as age and size at maturity, fecundity and
fertility, age-specific rates of survival, and life span—are the major phenotypic determinants …

Developmental plasticity refers to the property by which the same genotype produces
distinct phenotypes depending on the environmental conditions under which development …

Phenotypic plasticity, the property by which living organisms express different phenotypes
depending on environmental conditions, can impact their response to environmental …

The gut is the primary interface between an animal and food, but how it adapts to qualitative
dietary variation is poorly defined. We find that the Drosophila midgut plastically resizes …

Energy production and metabolism are intimately linked to ecological and environmental
constraints across the tree of life. In plants, which depend on sunlight to produce energy, the …

The complex nature of climate change-mediated multitrophic interaction is an underexplored
area, but has the potential to dramatically shift transmission and distribution of many insects …

Reductions in animal body size over recent decades are often interpreted as an adaptive
evolutionary response to climate warming. However, for reductions in size to reflect adaptive …

Climate change is altering ecological and evolutionary processes across biological scales.
These simultaneous effects of climate change pose a major challenge for predicting the …

Ongoing climate change has forced animals to face changing thermal and nutritional
environments. Animals can adjust to such combinations of stressors via plasticity. Body size …

The trophic structure of food webs is primarily determined by the variation in trophic position
among species and individuals. Temporal dynamics of food web structure are central to our …