A5053347663- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Plant and animal studies
- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Food Safety and Hygiene
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Ecosystem dynamics and resilience
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Insect behavior and control techniques
University of Cambridge
2018-2025
Abstract Understanding which factors influence the ability of individuals to respond changing temperatures is fundamental species conservation under climate change. We investigated how a community butterflies responded fine‐scale changes in air temperature, and whether species‐specific responses were predicted by ecological or morphological traits. Using data collected across UK reserve network, we 29 butterfly buffer thoracic temperature against temperature. First, tested differences...
Abstract Butterflies and moths face a range of anthropogenic threats with many the best-studied populations in decline. In response, butterfly moth conservation programmes are implementing diverse set actions, but to date no study has synthesised evidence for their effectiveness. We present an overview recently published Conservation Evidence synopsis conservation, describe patterns biases available evidence, compare these similar synopses on other taxa. find that most covers focuses...
While food losses (foods which were intended for human consumption, but ultimately are not directly eaten by people) have been included in animal feed millennia, the practice is all banned European Union. Amid recent calls to promote a circular economy, we conducted survey of pig farmers (n = 82) and other agricultural stakeholders 81) at UK trade fair on their attitudes toward use feed, potential relegalisation swill (the cooked as feed). most respondents found feeds containing by-products...
Abstract Phenotypic plasticity enables animals to adjust their behavior flexibly social environment—sometimes through the expression of adaptive traits that have not been exhibited for several generations. We investigated how long adaptations can usefully persist when they are routinely expressed, by using experimental evolution document loss associated with supply and demand parental care. allowed populations burying beetles Nicrophorus vespilloides evolve in two different environments 48...
Early-life conditions have been shown to a profound effect on an animal's body size and fecundity across diverse taxa. However, less is known about how early-life effects within each sex interact determine reproductive success. We used experiments with burying beetles Nicrophorus vespilloides analyse this problem. The nutritional experienced by in early life are key determinant of adult both sexes, turn influences male tactics. In previous work, we showed that smaller males more effective...
Abstract Principles of social evolution have long been used retrospectively to interpret interactions, but less commonly applied predictively inform conservation and animal husbandry strategies. We investigate whether differences in developmental environment, facilitated by divergent conditions, can predict resilience environmental change. Upon exposure harsh novel environments, populations that previously experienced more benign environments are predicted either suffer fitness losses (the...
Abstract Through the effort required to construct them, microenvironmental conditions they impose on family and their indirect influence post-hatching care, nests play a key role in influencing life. We combined experimental evolution with cross-fostering experiments laboratory populations of Nicrophorus vespilloides investigate three ways which nest can contribute more broadly parental investment. used replicate N. that had evolved for 42 generations under contrasting regimes care....
Abstract Fluids produced by parents for dependent young, such as milk or regurgitate, carry molecules that assist offspring with growth, immunity and digestion, allowing the metabolic burden of development to be shared between offspring. We tested whether this division labour changes plastically evolves when are experimentally deprived their parents’ assistance. In burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides deposit oral fluids on carrion nest during pre-hatching care, facultatively transfer...
Through the effort required to construct them, microenvironmental conditions they impose on family and their indirect influence posthatching care, nests play a key role in influencing life. We combined experimental evolution with cross-fostering experiments laboratory populations of Nicrophorus vespilloides investigate three ways which nest can contribute more broadly parental investment. used replicate N. that had evolved for 42 generations under contrasting regimes care. Populations were...