Using Nutritional Geometry to Explore How Social Insects Navigate Nutritional Landscapes

Autor: Antonin J. J. Crumière, Calum J. Stephenson, Manuel Nagel, Jonathan Z. Shik

Publikováno v: Insects, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 53 (2020)

Insects face many cognitive challenges as they navigate nutritional landscapes that comprise their foraging environments with potential food items. The emerging field of nutritional geometry (NG) can help visualize these challenges, as well as the fo

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Using nutritional geometry to define the fundamental macronutrient niche of the widespread invasive ant Monomorium pharaonis.

Autor: Birla A Krabbe, Xavier Arnan, Pol Lannes, Christoffer Echtvad Bergstedt, Rasmus Stenbak Larsen, Jes Søe Pedersen, Jonathan Z Shik

Publikováno v: PLoS ONE, Vol 14, Iss 6, p e0218764 (2019)

The emerging field of nutritional geometry (NG) provides powerful new approaches to test whether and how organisms prioritize specific nutritional blends when consuming chemically complex foods. NG approaches can thus help move beyond food-level esti

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Ecological strategies of (pl)ants: Towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants

Autor: Heloise Gibb, Tom R. Bishop, Lily Leahy, Catherine L. Parr, Jean‐Philippe Lessard, Nathan J. Sanders, Jonathan Z. Shik, Javier Ibarra‐Isassi, Ajay Narendra, Robert R. Dunn, Ian J. Wright

Publikováno v: Gibb, H, Bishop, T R, Leahy, L, Parr, C L, Lessard, J-P, Sanders, N J, Shik, J Z, Ibarra-Isassi, J, Narendra, A, Dunn, R R & Wright, I J 2023, ' Ecological strategies of (pl)ants : Towards a world-wide worker economic spectrum for ants ', Functional Ecology, vol. 37, no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14135

Current global challenges call for a rigorously predictive ecology. Our understanding of ecological strategies, imputed through suites of measurable functional traits, comes from decades of work that largely focussed on plants. However, a key questio

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Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest: Consequences of future climate change

Autor: David A. Donoso, Yves Basset, Jonathan Z. Shik, Dale L. Forrister, Adriana Uquillas, Yasmín Salazar-Méndez, Stephany Arizala, Pamela Polanco, Saul Beckett, Diego Dominguez G., Héctor Barrios

Publikováno v: Donoso, D A, Basset, Y, Shik, J Z, Forrister, D L, Uquillas, A, Salazar-Méndez, Y, Arizala, S, Polanco, P, Beckett, S, Diego Dominguez, G & Barrios, H 2022, ' Male ant reproductive investment in a seasonal wet tropical forest : Consequences of future climate change ', PLoS ONE, vol. 17, no. 3, e0266222 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266222
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Tropical forests sustain many ant species whose mating events often involve conspicuous flying swarms of winged gynes and males. The success of these reproductive flights depends on environmental variables and determines the maintenance of local ant

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Evidence for locally adaptive metabolic rates among ant populations along an elevational gradient

Autor: Raphaël Boulay, Xavier Arnan, Jonathan Z. Shik, Xim Cerdá, Cristela Sánchez Oms

Publikováno v: Journal of Animal Ecology. 88:1240-1249

As global temperatures rise, the mechanistic links between temperature, physiology and behaviour will increasingly define predictions of ecological change. However, for many taxa, we currently lack consensus about how thermal performance traits vary

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https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13007