Understanding the mechanisms by which aphids survive low temperature is fundamental in forecasting the risk of pest outbreaks. Aphids are chill susceptible and die at a temperature close to that at which a small exothermal ...
Janion, C.Leinaas, H.P.Terblanche, J.S.Chown, S.L.(Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2010)
How the impacts of climate change on biological invasions will play out at the
mechanistic level is not well understood. Two major hypotheses have been proposed:
invasive species have a suite of traits that enhance their ...
Janion, C.Worland, M.R.Chown, S.L.(The Royal Entomological Society, 2009)
It is widely held both in the physiological literature, and more generally, that the average characteristics of species within an assemblage differ among sites. Such generalizations should be based on investigations of ...
Matthee, S.Krasnov, B.R.(Australian Society for Parasitology Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd, 2009)
We studied abundance and distribution of seven ectoparasite species (fleas Chiastopsylla rossi and Dynopsyllus ellobius, a louse Polyplax arvicanthis, mites Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Laelaps giganteus and two ticks ...
Cowling, R.M.Egoh, B.Knight, A.T.O’Farrell, P.J.Reyers, B.Rouget, M.Roux, D.J.Welz, A.Wilhelm-Rechman, A.(The National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 2008-07-15)
Research on ecosystem services has grown markedly in recent years. However, few studies are embedded in a social process
designed to ensure effective management of ecosystem services. Most research has focused only on ...
Chown, S.L.Slabber, S.McGeoch, M.A.Janion, C.Leinaas, H.P.(The Royal Society, 2007)
Synergies between global change and biological invasion have been identified as a major potential threat to global biodiversity and human welfare. The global change-type drought characteristic of many temperate terrestrial ...
Terblanche, J.S.Deere, J.A.Clusella-Trullas, S.Janion, C.Chown, S.L.(The Royal Society, 2007-09-18)
A full-factorial study of the effects of rates of temperature change and start temperatures was undertaken for both upper and lower critical thermal limits (CTLs) using the tsetse fly, Glossina pallidipes. Results show ...
The acute Hypoxic Ventilatory Response (HVR) is an important component of human hypoxia tolerance, hence presumably physiological
adaptation to high altitude. We measured the isocapnic HVR (L min¯¹ %¯¹) in two genetically ...
The aim of this project was to develop a global indicator of biological invasion for the Convention on Biological Diversity's (CBD) 2010 target. In developing this indicator we created a database which lists all documented ...
Lee, JEJanion, CMarais, EJansen van Vuuren, BChown, SL(The Royal Society, 2009)
Despite the importance of understanding the mechanisms underlying range limits and abundance
structure, few studies have sought to do so. Here we use a terrestrial slug species, Deroceras panormitanum,
that has invaded a ...
The fundamental equation of the metabolic theory of ecology (MTE) indicates
that most of the variation in metabolic rate are a consequence of variation in
organismal size and environmental temperature. Although evolution ...