The primary reason animals, including insect herbivores, eat is to acquire a mix of nutrients
needed to fuel the processes of growth, development, and reproduction. Most insect …

Publisher Summary This chapter updates former reviews on locust polyphenism and also
discusses recent findings. Over 200 articles were published in scientific journals on various …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

Nutrition has long been considered more the domain of medicine and agriculture than of the
biological sciences, yet it touches and shapes all aspects of the natural world. The need for …

Modest dietary restriction (DR) prolongs life in a wide range of organisms, spanning single-
celled yeast to mammals. Here, we report the use of recent techniques in nutrition research …

Forage plants are valuable because they maintain wild and domesticated herbivores, and
sustain the delivery of meat, milk and other commodities. Forage plants contain different …

1. The science of nutritional ecology spans a wide range of fields, including ecology,
nutrition, behaviour, morphology, physiology, life history and evolutionary biology. But does …

Diet affects both lifespan and reproduction [1–9], leading to the prediction that the
contrasting reproductive strategies of the sexes should result in sex-specific effects of …

The niche concept is central to ecology but is often depicted descriptively through observing
associations between organisms and habitats. Here, we argue for the importance of …

Diet and health are intimately linked and recent studies have found that caloric restriction
can affect immune function. However, when given a choice between diets that differ in their …