What do some of our smallest creatures have to tell us about the bigger impacts of climate change? A great deal, it turns out, says Professor Nigel Andrew, from the University of New England's Insect Ecology Lab. He believes the common meat ant, found in large...
Oliver, I., Dorrough, J., Doherty, H., Andrew, N.R., 2016. Additive and synergistic effects of land cover, land use and climate on insect biodiversity. Landscape Ecology, 1-17.
Behnaz's first publication from her PhD has been accepted in PeerJ The physiological consequences of varied heat exposure events in adult Myzus persicae: a single prolonged exposure compared to repeated shorter exposures well...
in Austral Entomology entitled “Effects of microclimate and species identity on body temperature and thermal tolerance of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Well done Zac!
Our 'Insect responses to climate change' paper is 5th highest cited paper in #PeerJ
Lambert K. T. A., Andrew N. R. & McDonald P. G. M. (2014) The influence of avian biodiversity and a weedy understorey on canopy arthropod assembly. Open Journal of Ecology accepted 13th November 2014.
Gibb H., Stoklosa J., Warton D. I., Brown A. D., Andrew N. R. & Cunningham S. A. (in press) Does morphology predict trophic position and habitat use of ant species and assemblages? Oecologia, accepted 15 September 2014.
Gibb H., Muscat D., Binns M., Silvey C. J., Peters R. A., Warton D. I. & Andrew N. R. (in press) Responses of foliage-living spider assemblage composition and traits to an environmental gradient in Themeda grasslands. Aust. Ecol., Accepted 26th August 2014.
Brown AM, Warton DI, Andrew NR, Binns M, Cassis G & Gibb H (2014) The fourth-corner solution – using predictive models to understand how species traits interact with the environment. Methods in Ecology and Evolution doi 10.1111/2041-210X.12163. can be found...
Nguyen, C., Bahar, H., Baker, G. & Andrew, N.R. (2014) Thermal tolerance limits of diamondback moth in ramping and plunging assays. PLOS ONE 9: e87535 doi 10.1371/journal.pone.0087535. PDF copy can be found...
