Search Results - "Youngblood, Jacob P"
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Oxygen supply limits the chronic heat tolerance of locusts during the first instar only
Published in Journal of insect physiology (01-11-2020)“…[Display omitted] •Oxygen limitation may be more common during immature life stages.•We measured the effects of heat and hypoxia on performance.•Heat tolerance…”
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The neuroscience of adaptive thermoregulation
Published in Neuroscience letters (23-01-2019)“…The nervous system acts as a biological thermostat by controlling behaviors that regulate the warming and cooling of animals. We review the structures…”
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Vulnerability to climate change increases with trophic level in terrestrial organisms
Published in The Science of the total environment (20-03-2023)“…The resilience of ecosystem function under global climate change is governed by individual species vulnerabilities and the functional groups they contribute to…”
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Students respond positively to an instructor collecting and sharing aggregated class demographic data from a survey in a high-enrollment physiology course
Published in Advances in physiology education (01-12-2024)“…The impersonal nature of high-enrollment science courses makes it difficult to build student-instructor relationships, which can negatively impact student…”
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Fundamental Flaws with the Fundamental Niche
Published in Integrative and comparative biology (01-10-2019)“…Abstract For more than 70 years, Hutchinson’s concept of the fundamental niche has guided ecological research. Hutchinson envisioned the niche as a…”
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Body mass and growth rates predict protein intake across animals
Published in eLife (11-11-2024)“…Organisms require dietary macronutrients in specific ratios to maximize performance, and variation in macronutrient requirements plays a central role in niche…”
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Climate change expected to improve digestive rate and trigger range expansion in outbreaking locusts
Published in Ecological monographs (01-02-2023)“…Global climate change will probably exacerbate crop losses from insect pests, reducing agricultural production, and threatening food security. To predict where…”
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Plant carbohydrate content limits performance and lipid accumulation of an outbreaking herbivore
Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences (09-12-2020)“…Locusts are major intermittent threats to food security and the ecological factors determining where and when these occur remain poorly understood. For many…”
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Thermal acclimation of flies from three populations of Drosophila melanogaster fails to support the seasonality hypothesis
Published in Journal of thermal biology (01-04-2019)“…In seasonal environments, natural selection should favor genotypes that acclimate to slow and predictable changes in temperature. Selective pressure for…”
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Anatomical Self-Efficacy of Undergraduate Students Improves during a Fully Online Biology Course with At-Home Dissections
Published in Advances in physiology education (01-03-2022)“…Student enrollments in online college courses have grown steadily over the past decade, and college administrators expect this trend to continue or accelerate…”
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Oxygen Limitation Does Not Drive the Decreasing Heat Tolerance of Grasshoppers during Development
Published in Physiological and biochemical zoology (01-11-2019)“…Thermal physiology changes as organisms grow and develop, but we do not understand what causes these ontogenetic shifts. According to the theory of oxygen- and…”
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A positive genetic correlation between hypoxia tolerance and heat tolerance supports a controversial theory of heat stress
Published in Biology letters (2005) (01-11-2017)“…We used quantitative genetics to test a controversial theory of heat stress, in which animals overheat when the demand for oxygen exceeds the supply. This…”
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Global perspectives and transdisciplinary opportunities for locust and grasshopper pest management and research
Published in Journal of orthoptera research (20-05-2024)“…Locusts and other migratory grasshoppers are transboundary pests. Monitoring and control, therefore, involve a complex system made up of social, ecological,…”
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Effects of Temperature and Nutrition on Growth Efficiency of the South American Locust ( Schistocerca cancellata ) During the Sixth Instar
Published in The FASEB journal (01-04-2020)“…Abstract only Throughout history, locust swarms have caused ecological and economic destruction in agricultural communities. Today, there are 20 species…”
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Integrating Theories of Thermal Physiology to Predict Impacts of Climate Change
Published 01-01-2022“…By increasing the mean and variance of environmental temperatures, climate change has caused local extinctions and range shifts of numerous species. However,…”
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Global perspectives and transdisciplinary opportunities for locust and grasshopper pest management and research
Published in Journal of orthoptera research (20-05-2024)“…Locusts and other migratory grasshoppers are transboundary pests. Monitoring and control, therefore, involve a complex system made up of social, ecological,…”
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