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Data from: Marine protected areas rescue a sexually selected trait in European lobster
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly implemented worldwide to maintain and restore depleted populations. However, despite our knowledge on the myriad of positive responses to protection, there are few empirical studies on the ability to conserve species' mating patterns and secondary sexual traits. In male European lobsters (Homarus gammarus), the size of claws relative to body size correlates positively with male mating success and is presumably under sexual selection. At the same time, an intensive trap fishery exerts selection against large claws in males. MPAs could therefore be expected to resolve these conflicting selective pressures and preserve males with large claws. We explored this hypothesis by contrasting claw size of males and females in three pairs of MPAs and nearby fished areas in Southern Norway. By finding that male lobsters have up to 8 % larger claws inside MPAs compared to similarly sized males in fished areas, our study provides evidence that MPAs rescue a secondary sexual trait. Recovery from harvest selection acting on claws is the most likely explanation, however, the higher abundance of lobster inside MPAs does not rule out a plastic response on claw size due to increased competition. Regardless of the underlying cause, our study demonstrates (1) the value of protected areas as a management tool for mitigating fishery-induced evolution, and (2) that MPAs help maintaining the scope for sexual selection in populations with vulnerable life-histories and complex mating system.
Data from: Factoring economic costs into conservation planning may not improve agreement over priorities for protection
Conservation organizations must redouble efforts to protect habitat given continuing biodiversity declines. Prioritization of future areas for protection is hampered by disagreements over what the ecological targets of conservation should be. Here we test the claim that such disagreements will become less important as conservation moves away from prioritizing areas for protection based only on ecological considerations and accounts for varying costs of protection using return-on-investment (ROI) methods. We combine a simulation approach with a case study of forests in the eastern United States, paying particular attention to how covariation between ecological benefits and economic costs influences agreement levels. For many conservation goals, agreement over spatial priorities improves with ROI methods. However, we also show that a reliance on ROI-based prioritization can sometimes exacerbate disagreements over priorities. As such, accounting for costs in conservation planning does not enable society to sidestep careful consideration of the ecological goals of conservation.
Data from: Rapid cold hardening protects against sublethal freezing injury in an Antarctic insect
Rapid cold hardening (RCH) is a type of beneficial phenotypic plasticity that occurs on extremely short time scales (minutes to hours) to enhance insects' ability to cope with cold snaps and diurnal temperature fluctuations. RCH has a well-established role in extending lower lethal limits, but its ability to prevent sublethal cold injury has received less attention. The Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica is Antarctica's only endemic insect and has a well-studied RCH response that extends freeze tolerance in laboratory conditions. However, the discriminating temperatures used in previous studies of RCH are far below those ever experienced in the field. Here, we tested the hypothesis that RCH protects against nonlethal freezing injury. Larvae of B. antarctica were exposed to either control (2&[deg]C), direct freezing (-9&[deg]C for 24 h), or RCH (-5&[deg]C for 2 h followed by -9&[deg]C for 24 h). All larvae survived both freezing treatments, but RCH larvae recovered more quickly from freezing stress and had significantly higher metabolic rates during recovery. RCH larvae also sustained less damage to fat body and midgut tissue and had lower expression of two heat shock protein transcripts (hsp60 and hsp90), which is consistent with RCH protecting against protein denaturation. The protection afforded by RCH resulted in energy savings; directly frozen larvae experienced a significant depletion in glycogen energy stores that was not observed in RCH larvae. Together, these results provide strong evidence that RCH protects against a variety of sublethal freezing injuries and allows insects to rapidly fine-tune their performance in thermally variable environments.
Data from: Multi-modal defenses in aphids offer redundant protection and increased costs likely impeding a protective mutualism
1.The pea aphid, Acyrthosiphon pisum, maintains extreme variation in resistance to its most common parasitoid wasp enemy, Aphidius ervi, which is sourced from two known mechanisms: protective bacterial symbionts, most commonly Hamiltonella defensa, or endogenously encoded defenses. We have recently found that individual aphids may employ each defense individually, occasionally both defenses together, or neither. 2.In field populations, Hamiltonella-infected aphids are found at low to moderate frequencies and while less is known about the frequency of resistant genotypes, they show up less often than susceptible genotypes in field collections. To better understand these patterns, we sought to compare the strengths and costs of both types of defense, individually and together, in order to elucidate the selective pressures that maintain multi-modal defense mechanisms or that may favor one over the other. 3.We experimentally infected five aphid genotypes (two lowly and three highly resistant), each with two symbiont strains, Hamiltonella-APSE8 (moderate protection) and Hamiltonella-APSE3 (high protection). This resulted in three sublines per genotype: uninfected, +APSE8, and +APSE3. Each of the fifteen total sublines was first subjected to a parasitism assay to determine its resistance phenotype and in a second experiment a subset were chosen to compare fitness (fecundity and survivorship) in presence and absence of parasitism. 4.In susceptible aphid genotypes, parasitized sublines infected with Hamiltonella generally showed increased protection with direct fitness benefits, but clear infection costs to fitness in the absence of parasitism. In resistant genotypes, Hamiltonella infection rarely conferred additional protection, often further reduced fecundity and survivorship when enemy challenged, and resulted in constitutive fitness costs in the absence of parasitism. We also identified strong aphid-genotype X symbiont-strain interactions, such that the best defensive strategy against parasitoids varied for each aphid genotype; one performed best with no protective symbionts, the others with particular strains of Hamiltonella. 5.This surprising variability in outcomes helps explain why Hamiltonella infection frequencies are often intermediate and do not strongly track parasitism frequencies in field populations. We also find that variation in endogenous traits, such as resistance, among host genotypes may offer redundancy and generally limit the invasion potential of mutualistic microbes in insects.
Data from: Probiotic treatment restores protection against lethal fungal infection lost during amphibian captivity
Host-associated microbiomes perform many beneficial functions including resisting pathogens and training the immune system. Here, we show that amphibians developing in captivity lose substantial skin bacterial diversity, primarily due to reduced ongoing input from environmental sources. We combined studies of wild and captive amphibians with a database of over 1 000 strains that allows us to examine antifungal function of the skin microbiome. We tracked skin bacterial communities of 62 endangered boreal toads, Anaxyrus boreas, across 18 time points, four probiotic treatments, and two exposures to the lethal fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in captivity, and compared these to 33 samples collected from wild populations at the same life stage. As the amphibians in captivity lost the Bd-inhibitory bacteria through time, the proportion of individuals exposed to Bd that became infected rose from 33% to 100% in subsequent exposures. Inoculations of the Bd-inhibitory probiotic Janthinobacterium lividum resulted in a 40% increase in survival during the second Bd challenge, indicating that the effect of microbiome depletion was reversible by restoring Bd-inhibitory bacteria. Taken together, this study highlights the functional role of ongoing environmental inputs of skin-associated bacteria in mitigating a devastating amphibian pathogen, and that long-term captivity decreases this defensive function.
Data from: Planning for climate change through additions to a national protected area network: implications for cost and configuration
<p>Expanding the network of protected areas is a core strategy for conserving biodiversity in the face of climate change. Here we explore the impacts on reserve network cost and configuration associated with planning for climate change in the United States using networks that prioritize areas projected to be climatically suitable for 1,460 species both today and into the future, climatic refugia, and areas likely to facilitate climate-driven species movements. For 14% of the species, networks of sites selected solely to protect areas currently climatically suitable failed to provide climatically suitable habitat in the future. Protecting sites climatically suitable for species today and in the future significantly changed the distribution of priority sites across the U.S.—increasing relative protection in the northeast, northwest, and central U.S. Protecting areas projected to retain their climatic suitability for species cost 59% more than solely protecting currently suitable areas. Including all climatic refugia and 20% of areas that facilitate climate-driven movements increased the cost by another 18%. Our results indicate that protecting some types of climatic refugia may be a relatively inexpensive adaptation strategy. Moreover, although addressing climate change in conservation plans will have significant implications for the configuration of networks, the increased cost of doing so may be relatively modest.</p> <p> </p>
Data for: Protective functions of Biocrusts on the Great Wall of China
<p><span>The Great Wall of China, one of the most emblematic and historical structures built by humankind throughout all of history, is suffering from rain and wind erosion and is largely colonized by biocrusts. Yet, how biocrusts influence the conservation and longevity of this structure is virtually unknown. Here, we conducted an extensive biocrust survey across the Great Wall and found that biocrusts cover 67% of the studied sections. Biocrusts enhance the mechanical stability and reduce the erodibility of the Great Wall. Compared with bare rammed earth, the biocrust-covered sections exhibited reduced porosity, water-holding capacity, erodibility, and salinity by 2%–48%, while increasing compressive strength, penetration resistance, shear strength, and aggregate stability by 37%–321%. We further found that the protective function of biocrusts mainly depended on biocrust features, climatic conditions, and structure types. Our work highlights the fundamental importance of biocrusts as a nature-based intervention to the conservation of the Great Wall, protecting this monumental heritage from erosion.</span></p>
Data from: Protection promotes energetically efficient structures in marine communities
<p>The sustainability of marine communities is critical for supporting many biophysical processes that provide ecosystem services that promote human well-being. It is expected that anthropogenic disturbances such as climate change and human activities will tend to create less energetically-efficient ecosystems that support less biomass per unit energy flow. It is debated, however, whether this expected development should translate into bottom-heavy (with small basal species being the most abundant) or top-heavy communities (where more biomass is supported at higher trophic levels with species having larger body sizes). Here, we combine ecological theory and empirical data to demonstrate that full marine protection promotes shifts towards top-heavy energetically-efficient structures in marine communities. First, we use metabolic scaling theory to show that protected communities are expected to display stronger top-heavy structures than disturbed communities. Similarly, we show theoretically that communities with high energy transfer efficiency display stronger top-heavy structures than communities with low transfer efficiency. Next, we use empirical structures observed within fully protected marine areas compared to disturbed areas that vary in stress from thermal events and adjacent human activity. Using a nonparametric causal-inference analysis, we find a strong, positive, causal effect between full marine protection and stronger top-heavy structures. Our work corroborates ecological theory on community development and provides a quantitative framework to study the potential restorative effects of different candidate strategies on protected areas.</p>
Data from: Prioritizing global land protection for population persistence can double the efficiency of habitat protection for reducing mammal extinction risk
<p>Halting the alarming rate of species extinction, driven primarily by habitat destruction, motivated the international community to adopt (2022) the Global Biodiversity Framework and it’s 23 targets aimed at reversing habitat and species loss. Due to urgency and resource constraints, a key challenge is meeting targets effectively and efficiently. Here we conduct a global prioritization linking 70,492 unique population maps and life history characteristics for 861 threatened terrestrial mammal species. Incorporating individual population data boosted viability for 84% more populations compared to using a more typical approach that uses species distributions alone, nearly doubling the security of long-term species persistence. We map and rank global mammal persistence priority areas and assess how well the current protected areas (PA) system captures these important regions. Our results will provide conservation actors a more direct and quantifiable linkage between conservation action and extinction risk than has previously been possible at a global scale.</p>
Data for: Does parasitoid species diversity promote protective symbiont diversity?
<p>How does diversity in nature come about? One factor contributing to this diversity are species interactions; diversity on one trophic level can shape diversity on lower or higher trophic levels. For example, parasite diversity enhances host immune diversity. Protective symbionts mediate host resistance and are therefore also engaged in reciprocal selection with their host's parasites. Here, we applied experimental evolution in a well-known symbiont-aphid-parasitoid system to study whether parasitoid diversity contributes to maintaining symbiont diversity. We used caged populations of black bean aphids (<em>Aphis fabae</em>), containing uninfected individuals and individuals infected with different strains of the bacterial endosymbiont <em>Hamiltonella defensa, </em>which protects aphids against parasitoids. Over multiple generations, these populations were exposed to three different species of parasitoid wasps (<em>Aphidius colemani</em>, <em>Binodoxys acalephae</em>, or <em>Lysiphlebus fabarum</em>), simultaneous or sequential mixtures of these species, or no wasps. Surprisingly, we observed little selection for <em>H. defensa</em> in most treatments, even when it clearly provided protection against a fatal parasitoid infection. This seemed to be caused by high induced costs of resistance: aphids surviving parasitoid attacks suffered an extreme reduction in fitness. In marked contrast to previous studies looking at the effect of different genotypes of a single parasitoid species, we found little evidence for a diversifying effect of multiple parasitoid species on symbiont diversity in hosts.</p>
Data for: Body mass mediates spatio-temporal responses of mammals to human frequentation across Italian protected areas
<p>Protected areas (PAs) networks are a pivotal tool to fight biodiversity loss, yet they often need to balance the mission of nature conservation with the socio-economic need of giving opportunity for outdoor recreation. Recreation in natural areas is important for human health in an urbanised society, but can prompt behavioural modifications in wild animals. Rarely, however, have these responses being studied across multiple PAs and using standardized methods. We deployed a systematic camera trapping protocol at over 200 sites to sample medium and large mammals in four PAs within the European Natura 2000 network to assess their spatio-temporal responses to human frequentation, proximity to towns, amount of open habitat, and topographical variables. By applying multi-species and single-species models on the number of diurnal, crepuscular, and nocturnal detections, and a multi-species model on nocturnality index, we estimated both species-specific and meta-community level effects, finding that increased nocturnality appeared the main strategy that the mammal meta-community used to cope with human disturbance. However, responses in the diurnal, crepuscular, and nocturnal site use were mediated by species' body mass, with larger species exhibiting avoidance of humans and smaller species more opportunistic behaviours. Our results show the effectiveness of standardised sampling and provide insights for planning the expansion of PA networks as foreseen by the Kunming-Montreal biodiversity agreement.</p>
Data and code for: A naturally occurring mitochondrial genome variant confers broad protection from infection in Drosophila (doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.28.587162)
<p><strong> </strong>Raw data and R code for:</p> <p>Tiina S. Salminen, Laura Vesala, Yuliya Basikhina, Megan Kutzer, Tea Tuomela, Ryan Lucas, Katy Monteith, Arun Prakash, Tilman Tietz<sup> </sup>and Pedro F. Vale. A naturally occurring mitochondrial genome variant confers broad protection from infection in <em>Drosophila </em>(<strong>doi:</strong> https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.03.28.587162)</p> <p><em> </em></p> <p><strong>Data files:</strong></p> <p>CFU_stats.R: statistics for CFU data</p> <p>Prettgeri_CFU.csv: colony forming units (CFUs) in <em>P. rettgeri</em>-infected flies</p> <p>Saureus_CFU.csv: colony forming units (CFUs) in <em>S. aureus</em>-infected flies</p> <p> </p> <p>gene exp_mitotypes-stats.R: statistics for the qPCR data</p> <p>gene exp_mitotypes.csv: data on the relative gene expression of <em>FucTC</em>, <em>AANATL3</em>, <em>Acp1</em> and <em>CG3397</em> among mitotypes</p> <p> </p> <p>copynumber_stats.R: statistics for the copynumber data</p> <p>copynumber.csv: Mitochondrial copy number as copies of the mtDNA target gene <em>16S</em> relative to nuclear target gene <em>RpL32 </em></p> <p> </p> <p>respirometry_stats.R: statistics for the respirometry data</p> <p>respirometry.csv: Mitochondrial respiration measured in uninfected male flies by measuring oxygen consumption of the OXPHOS complexes I, III and IV</p> <p> </p> <p>ROS_stats.R: statistics for ROS</p> <p>ROS.csv: hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) quantification (whole flies)</p> <p> </p> <p>wasp_stats.R: Statistics on the proportion of melanised and unmelanised wasp larvae</p> <p>Wasps_data.csv: Data on proportion of melanised (killed) and unmelanised (living) <em>L. boulardi</em> parasitoid wasp larvae found in <em>Drosophila</em> larvae</p> <p> </p> <p>CC_stats.R: statistics on crystal cell counts</p> <p>CC.csv: amount of hemocytes called crystal cell in the larvae</p> <p> </p> <p>HC_stats.R: statistics on hemocyte counts</p> <p>hc_uninf.csv: total and activated hemocyte (blood cell) counts in uninfected larvae</p> <p>hc_inf.csv: total and activated hemocyte (blood cell) counts in infected larvae (48 h after infection by <em>L. boulardi</em> parasitoid wasps)</p> <p> </p> <p>PPO3.R: statistics on PPO3 expression levels</p> <p>PPO3.csv: data on gene expression level of prophenoloxidase (PPO3)</p> <p> </p> <p>MMP.R: statistics on MMP</p> <p>cybridMMP.csv: mitochondrial membrane potential (MMP) measured from larval hemocytes using the TMRM dye</p> <p> </p> <p>CellROX.R: statistics on CellROX<sup>TM </sup>signal</p> <p>CellROX.csv: Reactive oxygen species (ROS) measured from larval hemocytes using CellROX<sup>TM</sup> green reagent</p> <p> </p> <p>Hazard.Rmd: hazard ratios</p> <p>Combined.xlsx: data on hazard ratios Hazard ratios of survival post <em>P. rettgeri, S. aureus, </em>Kallithea and DCVinfections</p> <p> </p> <p>Mito_priming.R: Statistics on the effect of priming</p> <p>mito_priming.csv: data on the effect of immune priming with heat-killed bacteria prior to infection</p> <p> </p> <p>hc_stats_supplementary.R: statistics for sex-specific differences in hemocyte counts (data: hc_uninf.csv & hc_inf.csv )</p> <p>PI_hc_stats.R: statistics on dead (Propidium iodide, PI-positive) vs. living (PI-negative) larval hemocytes (data: hc_uninf.csv & hc_inf.csv )</p> <p> </p> <p>melanisation_stats.R: statistics on melanisation response</p> <p>melanisation_males.csv: melanisation response in hemolymph</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Cyclisation Modes in Anilides of N-Protected 3-Oxo-4-phenylaminobutyric Acid Under Knorr Conditions - NMR Data
<p>This archive contains raw 1H/13C FIDs and associated data in Bruker-specific format that can be viewed with Bruker’s TopSpin or other appropriate NMR processing software. The subfolders are named in accordance with the compound numbering in the associated research paper (Cyclisation Modes in Anilides of N-Protected 3-Oxo-4-phenylaminobutyric Acid Under Knorr Conditions).</p> <p>Correspondence: angelov@uni-plovdiv.bg</p>
Data Visualization and Gendered Questions in Radiation Protection
<p>Recognition that age and biological sex are key factors in outcome of radiation exposure is reflected in the Discussion Paper on The Future of Radiological Protection. Use of a hypothetical "fixed" or universal exposure level in visualization of exposure outcomes in a large population such as the A bomb survivors, and application of a lifecycle model as compared to the population model are explored. The author is an evolutionary biologist with decades of national and global policy engagement, and she examines the efficacy of the idea of multiple standards from the perspective of the need for reparation.</p>
The Protective Function of Directed Asymmetry in the Pericellular Matrix Enveloping Chondrocytes (Supporting Data)
<p>This dataset contains the images necessary to reproduce the study "The Protective Function of Directed Asymmetry in the Pericellular Matrix Enveloping Chondrocytes (DOI: 10.1007/s10439-021-02900-1)"</p>
Data from: Cascading effects of a disease outbreak in a remote protected area
<p>Disease outbreaks induced by humans increasingly threaten wildlife communities worldwide. Like predators, pathogens can be key top-down forces in ecosystems, initiating trophic cascades that may alter food webs. An outbreak of mange in a remote Andean protected area caused a dramatic population decline in a mammalian herbivore (the vicuña), creating conditions to test the cascading effects of disease on the ecological community. By comparing a suite of ecological measurements to pre-disease baseline records, we demonstrate that mange restructured tightly-linked trophic interactions previously driven by a mammalian predator (the puma). Following the mange outbreak, scavenger (Andean condor) occurrence in the ecosystem declined sharply and plant biomass and cover increased dramatically in predation refuges where herbivory was historically concentrated. The evidence shows that a disease-induced trophic cascade, mediated by vicuña density, could supplant the predator-induced trophic cascade, mediated by vicuña behavior, thereby transforming the Andean ecosystem. </p>
Survey data Agro-ecological farming in Protected Areas
<p>“Produce better, eat well" is the subtitle of the Good Food Strategy of the Brussels-Capital Region. Can (sub)urban protected areas simultaneously contribute to this challenge and support biodiversity? In order to find inspiring cases, we launched an online survey in English, French and Dutch and spread it through networks on agro-ecological farming and nature conservation. We identified 76 Western-European cases of agro-ecological farming in protected areas. This database includes all of these cases. The survey was followed by in-depth interviews and the findings were summarized in this report.</p>
Data from: Protecting great apes from disease: compliance with measures to reduce anthroponotic disease transmission
<p><span>Based on an international sample of past (N=420) and potential future visitors (N=569) to wild great ape tourism sites in Africa, we used an online questionnaire to characterise visitors' practices, assess expectations (e.g., about proximity to great apes) and identify key factors related to potential compliance with disease mitigation measures. This was implemented adapting a framework from health literature (the Health Belief Model; HBM), particularly focused on reducing COVID-19 transmission at an early stage of the pandemic.</span></p>
Data from: Trends in habitat quality and habitat degradation within terrestrial protected areas
<p>Please see the paper<strong> "Trends in habitat quality and habitat degradation within terrestrial protected areas"</strong> for the definition of habitat quality, habitat degradation and different threats.</p> <p>This dataset describes global habitat quality and degradation for 2020, with a resolution of 250 m. Values of habitat quality and total habitat degradation can be used directly. <strong>Of note, values of habitat degradation caused by each threat should be multiplied by the relative threat weights before use.</strong> The details are as follows:</p> <ol> <li>"quality_c_2020.tif" represents habitat quality.</li> <li>"deg_sum_c_2020.tif" represents total habitat degradation which is caused by all 5 threats.</li> <li>"deg_sum_c_NonIrriCrp_2020.tif" represents habitat degradation caused by non-irrigated cropland, and should be multiplied by 0.2145 before use.</li> <li>"deg_sum_c_IrriCrp_2020.tif" represents habitat degradation caused by irrigated cropland, and should be multiplied by 0.2292 before use.</li> <li>"deg_sum_c_CrpVeg_2020.tif" represents habitat degradation caused by mosaic cropland-vegetation, and should be multiplied by 0.1623 before use.</li> <li>"deg_sum_c_VegCrp_2020.tif" represents habitat degradation caused by mosaic vegetation-cropland, and should be multiplied by 0.0541 before use.</li> <li>"deg_sum_c_Urban_2020.tif" represents habitat degradation caused by urban areas, and should be multiplied by 0.3400 before use.</li> </ol> <p>Besides, "InputData_forR.zip" provides data on protected-area-level habitat quality and habitat degradation, which is for statistical analyses by R in the paper "Trends in habitat quality and habitat degradation within terrestrial protected areas".</p>
Data from: Thermal plasticity in protective wing pigmentation is modulated by genotype and food availability in an insect model of seasonal polyphenism
<p>Phenotypic variation in natural populations results from complex interactions between organisms and their changing environments. The environment shapes both phenotypic frequencies (during adaptation) and organismal phenotypes (through phenotypic plasticity). Developmental plasticity, in particular, refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism's phenotype depends on the environmental conditions during development. It can match phenotype to ecological conditions and help organisms to cope with environmental heterogeneity, including differences between alternating seasons. Experimental studies of developmental plasticity often focus on the impact of individual environmental cues and do not take explicit account of genetic variation. In contrast, natural environments are complex, comprising multiple variables with combined effects that are poorly understood and may vary among genotypes. We investigated the effects of multifactorial environments on the development of the seasonally plastic eyespots of <em>Bicyclus anynana</em> butterflies. Eyespot size depends on developmental temperature and is involved in alternative seasonal strategies for predator avoidance. In nature, both temperature and food availability undergo seasonal fluctuations. However, our understanding of how thermal plasticity in eyespot size varies in response to food availability and across genotypes remains limited. To address this, we investigated the combined effects of temperature (T; two levels: 20°C and 27°C) and food availability (N; two levels: control and limited) during development. We examined their impact on wing and eyespot size in adult males and females from multiple genotypes (G; 28 families). We found evidence of thermal and nutritional plasticity and temperature-by-nutrition interactions (significant TxN) on the size of eyespots in both sexes. Food limitation resulted in relatively smaller eyespots and tempered the effects of temperature. Additionally, we found differences among families for thermal plasticity (significant GxT effects), but not for nutritional plasticity (non-significant GxN effects) nor for the combined effects of temperature and food limitation (non-significant GxTxN effects). Our results reveal the context dependence of thermal plasticity, with the slope of thermal reaction norms varying across genotypes and across nutritional environments. We discuss these results in light of the ecological significance of pigmentation and the value of considering thermal plasticity in studies of the biological impact of climate change.</p>
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