Affective states, such as emotions, are presumably widespread across the animal kingdom
because of the adaptive advantages they are supposed to confer. However, the study of the …

Incorporating physiology into models of population dynamics will improve our understanding
of how and why invasions succeed and cause ecological impacts, whereas others fail or …

Plants are fundamental to directly or indirectly addressing most of humanity's contemporary
challenges such as food scarcity and insecurity, availability of shelter, energy, and industrial …

Environmental change and biodiversity loss are but two of the complex challenges facing
conservation practitioners and policy makers. Relevant and robust scientific knowledge is …

Overgeneralization and a lack of baseline data for microorganisms in high‐latitude
environments have restricted the understanding of the microbial response to climate …

Climate change is threatening biodiversity world-wide. One of its most prominent
manifestations are rising global temperatures and higher frequencies of heat waves. High …

Horizon scanning is increasingly used in conservation to systematically explore emerging
policy and management issues. We present the results of a horizon scan of issues likely to …

Ecoimmunology is a rapidly develo** field that explores how the environment shapes
immune function, which in turn influences host–parasite relationships and disease …

Animal behaviour and welfare research are part of a wider endeavour to optimize the health
and wellbeing of humans, animals and ecosystems. As such, it is part of the One Health …

Abstract Mass Mortality Events (MMEs) affecting the noble pen shell Pinna nobilis have
been reported since 2016. In this work, we used an in vitro flow cytometric assay to evaluate …