The tomato leafminer, Tuta absoluta is a destructive invasive pest of cultivated
tomato and other Solanaceae plants, with yield losses of 80-100%. Mirid
predators are key natural enemies of T. absoluta, but they also ...
Hosting 1460 plant and 126 vertebrate endemic species, the Great Escarpment (hereafter, Escarpment) forms a semi-circular “amphitheater” of mountains girdling southern Africa from arid west to temperate east. Since arid ...
The utilisation of Tenebrio molitor L. (the yellow mealworm) as a cheaper, alternative and readily available ingredient for food and feed is gaining interest globally. However, there has been limited research on locally ...
Whales have been titled climate savers in the media with their recovery
welcomed as a potential carbon solution. However, only a few studies were
performed to date providing data or model outputs to support the ...
Seyboth, E.; Meynecke, Jan-Olaf; De Bie, Jasper; Roychoudhury, Alakendra; Findlay, Ken P.(Frontiers Media, 2023-10-19)
Southern Hemisphere humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were heavily
targeted during modern commercial whaling operations, with some 216,000
individuals killed between 1903 and 1973. That impacted the abundance of ...
The fall armyworm (FAW) Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) is a global invasive
pest of cereals. Although this pest uses maize and sorghum as its main hosts, it is
associated with a wide range of host plants due to its ...
Malod, Kevin; Archer, C. Ruth; Hunt, John; Nicolson, Sue W.; Weldon, Christopher William(Frontiers Media, 2023-05-17)
INTRODUCTION : A changing environment can select on life-history traits and tradeoffs
in a myriad of ways. For example, global warming may shift phenology and
thus the availability of host-plants. This may alter selection ...
INTRODUCTION : Temperature fluctuations are important for the distribution and
survival of insects. Rapid hardening, a type of phenotypic plasticity, is an
adaptation that can help individuals better tolerate lethal ...
Pirk, Christian Walter Werner; Scheiner, Ricarda(Frontiers Media, 2023-06-06)
Global change brings about a number of new challenges to insects. Urbanisation and
landscape transformation, increasing temperatures, and frequent droughts will not only
affect the species itself but also has knock-on ...
If transparent and inclusive stakeholder discussion delivers a consensus for active
rewilding, then five steps are recommended for operationalizing that decision,
focused initially on the large herbivore assemblage. ...
Bonacic, Cristian; Medellin, Rodrigo A.; Ripple, William; Sukumar, Raman; Ganswindt, Andre; Padua, Suzana M.; Padua, Claudio; Pearl, Mary C.; Aguirre, Luis F.; Valdes, Lourdes Mugica; Buchori, Damayanti; Innes, John L.; Ibarra, J. Tomas; Rozzi, R.; Aguirre, A. Alonso(Frontiers Media, 2023-01-20)
A nuclear leakage or tactical nuclear weapon use in a limited war could cause
immense and long-lasting ecological consequences beyond the direct site
of exposure. We call upon all scientists to communicate the importance
of ...
Intraguild interactions are known to trigger competition among phytophagous
insects that depend on the same food source, which may have implications on
natural enemy performance. Here, we tested the hypothesis that ...
Tropical and subtropical savanna ecosystems (TSE; Figure 1) contribute 30% of
terrestrial primary productivity globally (Grace et al., 2006), while covering 20% of the
land area of the Neotropics, sub-Saharan Africa, ...
Oosthuizen, Maria Kathleen; Li, Dayong; Wei, Wanrong(Frontiers Media, 2023-08-15)
Anthropogenic activities are expanding exponentially and are transforming large areas of
natural habitat dramatically. Habitat loss is not the only anthropogenic disturbance that
directly affects wildlife, other disturbances ...
Jalloh, Abdul A.; Yusuf, Abdullahi Ahmed; Khamis, Fathiya; Subramanian, Sevgan; Mutyambai, Daniel Munyao(Frontiers Media, 2023-12)
Plant-soil feedback can influence aboveground interactions between plants and
herbivores by affecting plant chemistry. Such interactions can be utilized in pest
management. However, cropping systems such as maize-legume ...
Kajee, Mohammed; Henry, Dominic A.W.; Dallas, Helen F.; Griffiths, Charles L.; Pegg, Josephine; Van der Colff, Dewidine; Impson, Dean; Chakona, Albert; Raimondo, Domitilla C.; Job, Nancy M.; Paxton, Bruce R.; Jordaan, Martine S.; Bills, Roger; Roux, Francois; Zengeya, Tsungai Alfred; Hoffman, Andre; Rivers-Moore, Nick; Shelton, Jeremy M.(Frontiers Media, 2023-03-22)
In South Africa, anthropogenic pressures such as water over-abstraction, invasive
species impacts, land-use change, pollution, and climate change have caused
widespread deterioration of the health of river ecosystems. ...
De Flamingh, Alida; Ishida, Yasuko; Pecnerova, Patrícia; Vilchis, Sahara; Siegismund, Hans R.; Van Aarde, Rudi J.; Malhi, Ripan S.; Roca, Alfred L.(Frontiers Media, 2023-01-12)
Non-invasive biological samples benefit studies that investigate rare, elusive,
endangered, or dangerous species. Integrating genomic techniques that use
non-invasive biological sampling with advances in computational ...
Megafauna (animals ≥45 kg) have probably shaped the Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems for millions of years with pronounced impacts on biogeochemistry, vegetation, ecological communities and evolutionary processes. However, ...
Knowledge of the biology of a pest is essential for building sustainable management
programmes. Pentatomidae have a hemimetabolous life cycle with egg, nymphal, and adult life
stages, which differ in morphological, ...