The ecological impacts of nighttime light pollution have been a longstanding source of
concern, accentuated by realized and projected growth in electrical lighting. As human …

According to life‐history theory, growth rates are subject to strong directional selection due
to reproductive and survival advantages associated with large adult body size. Yet, growth is …

Many animals regulate their activity over a 24-h sleep–wake cycle, concentrating their peak
periods of activity to coincide with the hours of daylight, darkness, or twilight, or using …

Conventional approaches to population biology emphasise the roles of climatic conditions,
nutrient flow and predation as constraints on population dynamics. We argue here that this …

The existence of a synthetic program of research on what was then termed the “nocturnal
problem” and that we might now call “nighttime ecology” was declared more than 70 years …

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) are one of the most taxonomically diverse insect orders
with nearly 160,000 described species. They have been studied extensively for centuries …

Seasonal changes in the natural light condition play a pivotal role in the regulation of many
biological processes in organisms. Disruption of this natural condition via the growing loss of …

Assumptions about mortality rates form a cornerstone for models of life-history evolution.
When seeking adaptive explanations for body sizes, the size dependence of predation risk …

Phenotypic plasticity can either hinder or promote adaptation to novel environments. Recent
studies that have quantified alignments between plasticity, genetic variation, and divergence …

Highlights•We study how animals might alter their foraging method when prey density
changes.•Changes in prey distribution when prey density increases affect predictions.•The …