Climate change is affecting biodiversity, but proximate drivers remain poorly understood.
Here, we examine how experimental heatwaves impact on reproduction in an insect system. …

With climate change creating a more volatile atmosphere, heatwaves that create thermal
stress for living systems will become stronger and more frequent. Using the flour beetle …

Highlights • Male fertility and sperm form and function are very sensitive to thermal stress. •
Heatwaves are increasing, threatening biodiversity through damage to male fertility. • Male …

10.7554/eLife.49452.001 Rising and more variable global temperatures pose a challenge
for biodiversity, with reproduction and fertility being especially sensitive to heat. Here, we …

Dietary restriction (DR) increases lifespan in a broad variety of organisms and improves health
in humans. However, long-term transgenerational consequences of dietary interventions …

The niches of epiphytes are widely studied and have been shown to be complex involving
interspecific competition, succession and predation. This study is unique in that it applies the …

The theory that ageing evolves because of competitive resource allocation between the soma
and the germline has been challenged by studies showing that somatic maintenance can …

The existence of widespread male same-sex sexual behaviour (SSB) is puzzling: why does
evolution allow costly homosexual activity to exist, when reproductive fitness is primarily …

Urban trees and other green infrastructure are advocated as a cost-effective sustainable
solution to ameliorate the socio-economic and environmental challenges of urbanisation. UK …

Adulthood-only downregulation of insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS), an evolutionarily conserved
pathway regulating resource allocation between somatic maintenance and reproduction, …