Climate change, nutrition, and bottom-up and top-down food web processes

AE Rosenblatt, OJ Schmitz - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2016 - cell.com
Climate change ecology has focused on climate effects on trophic interactions through the
lenses of temperature effects on organismal physiology and phenological asynchronies …

How nutrients mediate the impacts of global change on locust outbreaks

AJ Cease - Annual Review of Entomology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Humidity–The overlooked variable in the thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

JJ Brown, M Pascual, MC Wimberly… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Vector‐borne diseases cause significant financial and human loss, with billions of dollars
spent on control. Arthropod vectors experience a complex suite of environmental factors that …

Morphology, photosynthetic physiology and biochemistry of nine herbaceous plants under water stress

Q Luo, H **e, Z Chen, Y Ma, H Yang, B Yang… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Global climate warming and shifts in rainfall patterns are expected to trigger increases in the
frequency and magnitude of drought and/or waterlogging stress in plants. To cope with …

Effects of protein and carbohydrate on an insect herbivore: the vista from a fitness landscape

M Le Gall, ST Behmer - 2014 - academic.oup.com
Protein and carbohydrates are important nutrients driving the growth of herbivores; however,
their content in plants is highly variable. Multiple studies have explored their effect on …

Grasslands, invertebrates, and precipitation: a review of the effects of climate change

KL Barnett, SL Facey - Frontiers in plant science, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Invertebrates are the main components of faunal diversity in grasslands, playing substantial
roles in ecosystem processes including nutrient cycling and pollination. Grassland …

Nutritional composition, quality, and shelf stability of processed Ruspolia nitidula (edible grasshoppers)

G Ssepuuya, IM Mukisa… - Food science & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The nutritional and commercial potential of the edible grasshopper (Ruspolia nitidula,
nsenene in Luganda), a delicacy in Uganda and many East African tribes, is limited by a …

Quantifying plant soluble protein and digestible carbohydrate content, using corn (Zea mays) as an exemplar

CA Deans, GA Sword, PA Lenhart… - Journal of …, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Elemental data are commonly used to infer plant quality as a resource to herbivores.
However, the ubiquity of carbon in biomolecules, the presence of nitrogen-containing plant …

Does plant cultivar difference modify the bottom-up effects of resource limitation on plant-insect herbivore interactions?

P Han, N Desneux, T Michel, J Le Bot… - Journal of Chemical …, 2016 - Springer
Variation in resource input to plants triggers bottom-up effects on plant-insect herbivore
interactions. However, variation in plant intrinsic traits in response to resource availability …

Grassland management effects on earthworm communities under ambient and future climatic conditions

J Singh, E Cameron, T Reitz, M Schädler… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of climate change on biodiversity can be modulated by other changing
environmental conditions (eg induced by land‐use change). The potential interactive effects …