Editorial: Diet, nutrition and insect responses to environmental change

Pers / media: OnderzoekPopular

Description

The articles in this Research Topic shed some light on interactions between the changing environment and species’ nutritional ecology and physiology. Filling the many remaining gaps in our understanding of this topic will help us predict how individuals, populations and food webs respond to drivers of global change.

Periode15-jun.-2024

Media-aandacht

1

Media-aandacht

  • TitelEditorial: Diet, nutrition and insect responses to environmental change
    Mate van erkenningInternational
    Media naam/outletHealth Reporter
    MediatypeWeb
    Land/RegioAustralia
    Release datum15/06/2024
    BeschrijvingAn individual’s nutrient intake affects its growth (1), immunity, reproductive success and survival (2). Nutrition influences behaviours including mate choice (3) and migration (4), and interactions between species across trophic levels (5). In sum, nutrition shapes almost all aspects of ecology, from individuals to ecosystems. Understanding a species’ nutritional ecology and physiology therefore helps us understand its broader biology. However, building this understanding is complicated because environmental changes associated with human activity such as climate change or pollution can disrupt species’ nutrition (6) (Figure 1). In turn, this can affect the health of individuals, populations and ecosystems. Here, we summarise some routes through which human-driven environmental change can affect species’ nutrition, possible consequences of these effects, and how the manuscripts in this research theme fit within this wider framework.
    URLhttps://health-reporter.news/editorial-diet-nutrition-and-insect-responses-to-environmental-change/
    PersonenNatalie van Dis, Bregje Wertheim, Marcel Visser