Meeting the growing global demand for agricultural products requires the development and
use of ecologically-based strategies that will allow sustainable intensification based on …

Highlights•Warming dominates the effects of climate change on species interactions in
insects.•Temperature directly affects behaviour, body size and spatiotemporal …

Locusts are grasshoppers that can migrate en masse and devastate food security. Plant
nutrient content is a key variable influencing population dynamics, but the relationship is not …

Highlights•Climate change can affect predator–prey interactions involving insects.•Climate
change can affect chemical signaling of plants and insects.•Predation risk and temperature …

Highlights•Daily temperature variation (DTV) and extreme temperatures (EXT) shape
performance.•Variable effects of DTV and EXT can be predicted from thermal performance …

Thermal acclimation is a key process enabling ectotherms to cope with temperature change.
To undergo a successful acclimation response, ectotherms require energy and nutritional …

Higher temperatures as a consequence of global climate change may considerably alter
trophic interactions. Ectothermic herbivores and carnivores generally ingest more food with …

Energy, nutrients and organisms move over landscapes, connecting ecosystems across
space and time. Meta‐ecosystem theory investigates the emerging properties of local …

The gut microbiota has been increasingly recognized to regulate host fitness, which in turn is
dependent on stability of community structure and composition. Many biotic and abiotic …

Little is known about how predators or their cues affect the acquisition and allocation of
energy throughout the ontogeny of prey organisms. To address this question, we have been …