Direct and indirect effects of altered temperature regimes and phenological mismatches on insect populations

M Abarca, R Spahn - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Climate change is transforming ecosystems by altering species ranges, the composition of
communities, and trophic interactions. Here, we synthesize recent reviews and subsequent …

Strengthening the evidence base for temperature-mediated phenological asynchrony and its impacts

JM Samplonius, A Atkinson, C Hassall… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Climate warming has caused the seasonal timing of many components of ecological food
chains to advance. In the context of trophic interactions, the match–mismatch hypothesis …

Forest microclimate and composition mediate long‐term trends of breeding bird populations

H Kim, BC McComb, SJK Frey, DM Bell… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is contributing to biodiversity redistributions and species declines. However,
cooler microclimate conditions provided by old‐growth forest structures compared with …

Gradients in richness and turnover of a forest passerine's diet prior to breeding: A mixed model approach applied to faecal metabarcoding data

JD Shutt, JA Nicholls, UH Trivedi… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rather little is known about the dietary richness and variation of generalist insectivorous
species, including birds, due primarily to difficulties in prey identification. Using faecal …

Seasonal shifts in bacterial and fungal microbiomes of leaves and associated leaf-mining larvae reveal persistence of core taxa regardless of diet

H Šigutová, M Šigut, P Pyszko, M Kostovčík… - Microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microorganisms are key mediators of interactions between insect herbivores and their host
plants. Despite a substantial interest in studying various aspects of these interactions …

Buffering and phenological mismatch: A change of perspective

JC Weir, AB Phillimore - Global Change Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The potential for climate change to disrupt phenology‐mediated interactions in interaction
networks has attracted considerable attention in recent decades. Frequently, studies …

Faecal metabarcoding reveals pervasive long-distance impacts of garden bird feeding

JD Shutt, UH Trivedi… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Supplementary feeding of wildlife is widespread, being undertaken by more than half of
households in many countries. However, the impact that these supplemental resources have …

Modelling thermal sensitivity in the full phenological distribution: A new approach applied to the spring arboreal caterpillar peak

KH Macphie, JM Samplonius, JL Pick… - Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in spring phenology are among the clearest biological responses to climate
warming. There has been much interest in how climate impacts on phenology because the …

Metabarcoding of fecal DNA reveals the broad and flexible diet of a globally endangered bird

K Tang, Y Wang, M Wu, S Wang, C Fu, Z Zhang… - Current …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Knowing the diet of endangered wild animals is a prerequisite for species-specific
conservation and habitat management. The Sichuan partridge Arborophila rufipectus is a …

Seasonality affects specialisation of a temperate forest herbivore community

CL Seifert, LR Jorge, M Volf, DL Wagner, GPA Lamarre… - Oikos, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding spatiotemporal trends on insect‐plant interaction networks is essential to
unveil the ecological and evolutionary processes driving herbivore specialisation. However …