[HTML][HTML] Harnessing artificial intelligence for analysing the impacts of nectar and pollen feeding in conservation biological control

GM Gurr, J Liu, G Pogrebna - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•An AI approach was trialled as a means of rapidly synthesising literature•Nectar
and pollen were confirmed as key plant food resources for natural enemies•Combined use …

Experimental heatwaves facilitate invasion and alter species interactions and composition in a tropical host‐parasitoid community

J Chen, OT Lewis - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
As mean temperatures increase and heatwaves become more frequent, species are
expanding their distributions to colonise new habitats. The resulting novel species …

[PDF][PDF] Forest structure and heterogeneity increase diversity and alter composition of host–parasitoid networks

NJ Rappa, M Staab, LS Ruppert, J Frey… - Ecological …, 2024 - pub.epsilon.slu.se
Antagonistic host–parasitoid interactions can be quantified using bipartite and
metanetworks, which have the potential to reveal how habitat structural elements relate to …

A novel host association of Idris Förster (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) with description of a new species from India

S Patra, K Rajmohana, R Debnath, S Sen… - Journal of Natural …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present study from the state of Odisha, India, documents for the first time a species of
Idris Förster (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) as an egg parasitoid of a clubionid spider. In …

Warming decreases host survival with multiple parasitoids, but parasitoid performance also decreases

M Thierry, NA Pardikes, B Rosenbaum… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Current global changes are resha** ecological communities and modifying environmental
conditions. We need to recognize the combined impact of these biotic and abiotic factors on …

On baeine wasps (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae) as egg parasitoids of myrmecomorph spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India, along with description of a new species …

R Debnath, K Rajmohana, S Sen, A Shabnam… - Zoologischer …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study documents novel egg parasitoid-host associations between two genera of
baeine wasps and a myrmecomorph spider, Myrmaplata plataleoides (O. Pickard …

Experimental heatwaves and warming cause distinctive community responses through their interactions with a novel species

J Chen, OT Lewis - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
As mean temperatures increase and heatwaves become more frequent, species are
expanding their distributions to colonise new habitats. The resulting novel species …

Experimental community and thermal ecology of rainforest Drosophila and their parasitoids

J Chen - 2022 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Climate change is altering global biodiversity patterns and the ecological functions provided
by nature. Species do not react to climate change independently: changes in one species' …