In recent years, scientists have become increasingly concerned about microplastic pollution. Efforts to raise awareness about microplastic pollution were initiated by marine and aquatic scientists who saw increasing amounts of plastic polluting surface water. However, recently s…
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Among-individual variation in vital rates, such as mortality rates and birth rates, can generate substantial diversity across individual life histories that scales up to influence population-level processes. The effects of this individual heterogeneity on population growth rates…
Environmental temperatures are among the most significant factors affecting the ecology, behaviour, and evolution of organisms across all levels of biological organization. As such, understanding the impacts that natural thermal regimes have on organisms is central to the study …
Intraspecific competition is ubiquitous in nature and can fundamentally shape the individual life history. Competition occurs, and consequently influences life-history traits, through the direct effects of interference and indirect effects of exploitation. Importantly, it is the…
Wing polyphenisms represent a classic life history trade-off between investment in reproduction or migration. While the analysis of trade-offs known as life history theory explains why this phenomenon occurs, how it occurs at an evolutionary, developmental, or mechanistic level …
The process of habitat change, common in nature, provides many opportunities to study ecological divergence. Environmental differences between habitats could lead to phenotypic and genetic differentiation. The mosquito Aedes aegypti presents an excellent opportunity to study suc…
The Middle Paleolithic Levant was presumably home to a variety of equid and other mammalian species originating from three continents co-mingling within the land bridge that is “the Levant corridor”. The biogeography of equid species may aid in contextualizing human migration pa…
The future is one of the fundamental concerns of humanity. In these days, where the main purpose is to ensure the continuity of life, the concept of sustainability comes to the fore in order to ensure this continuity. Although the concept of sustainability has equal dimensions a…
This thesis characterizes the nature of people's vulnerability to environmental changes, via a case study of Subarnabad village in southwest Bangladesh. Individual interviews, focus groups and observational visits generated insights on the dynamic and multi-faceted nature of vul…