… (Mungee & Athreya, 2019a), body, and wing allometries of relevance to flight (Mungee, 2019),
and comparative study of taxonomic and functional trait beta-diversity (Mungee & Athreya, …

Bergmann’s rule predicts a larger body size for endothermic organisms in colder environments.
The contrasting results from previous studies may be due to the differences in taxonomic …

We investigated some aspects of hawkmoth community assembly at 13 elevations along a
200‐ to 2770‐m transect in the eastern Himalayas, a little studied biodiversity hot spot of …

The Global Biodiversity Framework established ambitious goals for nature recovery which
governments must now incorporate into national legislation. In England, legally binding …

Remote measurement of morphological traits in free-ranging animals is very useful for many
studies, but such non-invasive photogrammetric methods are limited to large mammals and …

In this dissertation we present a comparative study of the diversity patterns of two disparate
organismal groups – Lepidoptera: Sphingidae (hawkmoths) and Aves (birds) – along an …

Functional traits can be classified as alpha or beta, based on their relative importance in
determining a species' competitive and environmental fitness, respectively. However, the link …

The linkage between environment, a species’ fitness and its abundance is central to the theory
of evolution. So far, all studies of this linkage have been heuristic and empirical due to an …

Aim We examined the patterns and processes of taxonomic and functional dissimilarities for
two disparate organismal groups (ectothermic hawkmoths and endothermic birds) across a …

Aim: We examined the patterns and processes of taxonomic and functional dissimilarities for
two disparate organismal groups (ectothermic hawkmoths and endothermic birds) across a …