Interest in assessing the critical thermal limits of bees is rapidly increasing, as these
physiological traits are good predictors of bees' potential responses to extreme temperature …

Pinpointing thermal tolerance thresholds for commercially important species, such as
aquaculture finfish, under acute and chronic thermal stress is becoming increasingly …

Metabolic rate, and the flexibility thereof, is a complex trait involving several inter-linked
variables that can influence animal energetics, behavior, and ultimately, fitness. Metabolic …

Organisms may simultaneously face thermal, desiccation and nutritional stress under
climate change. Understanding the effects arising from the interactions among these …

How respiratory structures vary with, or are constrained by, an animal's environment is of
central importance to diverse evolutionary and comparative physiology hypotheses. To date …

The red flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst)(Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), is a
cosmopolitan insect pest that infests a wide range of milled cereal flours. In this study, the …

Temperature is a key abiotic condition that limits the distributions of organisms, and forest
insects are particularly sensitive to thermal extremes. Whereas winged adult insects …

DNA barcoding has been succesfully used for bio-surveillance of forest and agricultural
pests in temperate areas, but has few applications in the tropics and particulary in Africa …

Fire is an important cause of disturbance which directly shapes many ecosystems
worldwide. While the effect of fire on the distribution and regeneration of plant species has …

An outbreak of Cacosceles newmannii (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) was detected for the
first time on sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) in 2015 in KwaZulu‐Natal, South Africa. Although …