A dose of experimental hormesis: When mild stress protects and improves animal performance

R Berry III, G López-Martínez - … and Physiology Part A: Molecular & …, 2020 - Elsevier
The adaptive response characterized by a biphasic curve is known as hormesis. In a
hormesis framework, exposure to low doses leads to protective and beneficial responses …

Reviewing the role of plant litter inputs to forested wetland ecosystems: leafing through the literature

AB Stoler, RA Relyea - Ecological monographs, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The input of senescent terrestrial leaf litter into soil and aquatic ecosystems is one of the
most massive cyclic subsidies on Earth, particularly within forested ecosystems. For …

Proximity to agriculture is correlated with pesticide tolerance: evidence for the evolution of amphibian resistance to modern pesticides

RD Cothran, JM Brown, RA Relyea - Evolutionary Applications, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic environmental change is a powerful and ubiquitous evolutionary force, so it
is critical that we determine the extent to which organisms can evolve in response to …

Potential interactions among disease, pesticides, water quality and adjacent land cover in amphibian habitats in the United States

WA Battaglin, KL Smalling, C Anderson… - Science of the Total …, 2016 - Elsevier
To investigate interactions among disease, pesticides, water quality, and adjacent land
cover, we collected samples of water, sediment, and frog tissue from 21 sites in 7 States in …

Evolved tolerance to freshwater salinization in zooplankton: life-history trade-offs, cross-tolerance and reducing cascading effects

WD Hintz, DK Jones, RA Relyea - … Transactions of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent discoveries have documented evolutionary responses to freshwater salinization. We
investigated if evolutionary responses to salinization exhibit life-history trade-offs or if they …

The contribution of phenotypic plasticity to the evolution of insecticide tolerance in amphibian populations

J Hua, DK Jones, BM Mattes, RD Cothran… - Evolutionary …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding population responses to rapid environmental changes caused by
anthropogenic activities, such as pesticides, is a research frontier. Genetic assimilation (GA) …

Pesticide tolerance in amphibians: induced tolerance in susceptible populations, constitutive tolerance in tolerant populations

J Hua, NI Morehouse, R Relyea - Evolutionary applications, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The role of plasticity in sha** adaptations is important to understanding the expression of
traits within individuals and the evolution of populations. With increasing human impacts on …

Adaptation of Gammarus pulex to agricultural insecticide contamination in streams

N Shahid, JM Becker, M Krauss, W Brack… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Exposure to pesticides affects non-target aquatic communities, with substantial
consequences on ecosystem services. Adaptation of exposed populations may reduce the …

Differences in sensitivity to the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis among amphibian populations

PW Bradley, SS Gervasi, J Hua… - Conservation …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Contributing to the worldwide biodiversity crisis are emerging infectious diseases, which can
lead to extirpations and extinctions of hosts. For example, the infectious fungal pathogen …

Evolved pesticide tolerance influences susceptibility to parasites in amphibians

J Hua, VP Wuerthner, DK Jones, B Mattes… - Evolutionary …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Because ecosystems throughout the globe are contaminated with pesticides, there is a need
to understand how natural populations cope with pesticides and the implications for …