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...
Nigel was invited to SLU – the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden to visit Dr Alva Curtsdotter, a biological modeller, and also gave a seminar on his research. Whilst at SLU Nigel also caught up with Prof Tomas Roslin. They collaborated on...
A new study deploys “dummy caterpillars” across the world to reveal predation hotspots – and who is behind them. LINK HERE It is well known that the tropics have many more species than the poles. But do the interactions among species also increase or become...
Nigel and Sarah are currently in beautiful Biddeford, Maine at the 'other' University of New England attending the Gordon Conference: Unifying Ecology Across Scales. We are showing off our ant research for the Future Eaters ARC project, as well as two current...
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
Big afternoon, post seminar, chatting to Koos Boomsma, Michael Poulson, David Nash, Jon Shik, and Sal...
Nigel is currently being hosted by Nate Sanders at the Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen . He gave an invited seminar titled: Assessing Invertebrate Responses to Global Warming: from...
