Global change is affecting plant-insect interactions in agroecosystems and can have dramatic consequences on yields when causing non-targeted pest outbreaks and threatening the use of pest natural enemies for biocontrol. The vineyard agroecosystem is an interesting system to study multi-stress conditions: on the one hand, agricultural intensificati...
Published in The Journal of experimental biology
To decide whether to remain underground or to emerge from overwintering, fossorial ectotherms simultaneously process environmental, gravitational, and circannual migratory cues. Here, we provide an experimental framework to study the behaviour of fossorial ectotherms during soil temperature inversion-a phenomenon that marks the transition between w...
Published in The Journal of experimental biology
Torpor is an adaptive strategy allowing heterothermic animals to cope with energy limitations. In birds and mammals, intrinsic and extrinsic factors, such as body mass and ambient temperature, are the main variables influencing torpor use. A theoretical model of the relationship between metabolic rate during torpor and ambient temperature has been ...
Global projections indicate that the demand for fresh water, energy, and food will increase significantly in the coming decades under the pressure of population growth, economic development, climate change, and other factors. Faced with this, technologies that promote sustainable development through the use of clean energy will be imperative. That ...
In the Indian sector of the Southern Ocean, the main Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) transport is associatedwith the subantarctic jet and deviates around several subantarctic islands and volcanic plateaus. This formsregional eddies that are hotspots for productivity, nutrient and CO2 cycling. Though ACC jet migrations related topast climate var...
Boosting plant immunity is an effective alternative to pesticides. However, environmental variations, accentuated by climate change, can compromise immunity. The robustness of a trait corresponds to the absence (or low level) of variation in that trait in the face of an environmental change. Here, we examined two types of robustness, robustness of ...
With the growing popularity of cold brewed coffee comes a need for brewing efficiency while preserving the desirable flavor profile. Despite the wide use of full immersion brewing techniques, the effect of brew time on the dynamic sensory profiles of full immersion brewed coffee remains underexplored. Here, we investigated the relationship between ...
Impaired thermoregulatory function is a clinical feature of many health conditions that affect triathletes using wheelchairs and consequently, individual athlete performances may fluctuate according to environmental temperature. We aimed to determine the effect of 1) water temperature on wheelchair triathlon swim time and 2) air temperature on hand...
Aluminum is used in the composition of many high explosives and contributes to their blast effect. This work focuses on the study of the combustion of a single isolated particle of size between 30 and 100 μm in an arbitrary atmosphere, whose pressure and composition are chosen to be close to those encountered in a high-explosive fireball. This gase...
The influence of light spectral properties on circadian rhythms is of substantial interest to laboratory-based investigation of the circadian system and to field-based understanding of the effects of artificial light at night. The trade-offs between intensity and spectrum regarding masking behaviors are largely unknown, even for well-studied organi...
