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Multiple introductions, polyploidy and mixed reproductive strategies are linked to genetic diversity and structure in the most widespread invasive plant across Southern Ocean archipelagos. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Protect global values of the Southern Ocean ecosystem science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Male Mediterranean fruit flies prefer warmer temperatures that improve sexual performance sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Emerging biological archives can reveal ecological and climatic change in Antarctica onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gc…

Is there a cost to natural cloning? In a new Science study, researchers studied a parthenogenetic grasshopper with a hybrid origin and found no decrease in fitness, across many traits, relative to its sexual counterparts. fcld.ly/fzg8981

Parthenogenesis without costs in a grasshopper with hybrid origins science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Using near‐ground leaf temperatures alters the projected climate change impacts on the historical range of a floristic biodiversity hotspot onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dd…

Heat stress is unavoidable for vulnerable informal settlement residents in the tropics. @_Emma_Ramsay discusses her findings, published by @iScience_CP youtube.com/watch?v=vcn-4_…

New research in @iScience_CP shows that heat stress is unavoidable for vulnerable informal settlement residents in the tropics @MonashBiol @Monash_SPHM @CHE_Monash @hasanuddin_univ cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Adequate sample sizes for improved accuracy of thermal trait estimates. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Sub-critical limits are viable alternatives to critical thermal limits. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Human activity strongly influences genetic dynamics of the most widespread invasive plant in the sub‐Antarctic. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/me…

Contamination across water sources (except municipal, which not all households have access to) was high. Well water did not meet @WHO drinking water guidelines and E. coli levels of environmental water indicates sewage contamination [💧 analyses: @MonashCivil, @Monash_Science]

A new international study in @PNASNews shows remarkable #evolution in isolation: beetles speciated across sub- #Antarctic islands as the climate cooled, in synchrony with many marine groups. @MonashBiol @CSIRO @ACE_Expedition doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… youtube.com/watch?v=JDOwnG…

Monitoring of diverse enteric pathogens across environmental and host reservoirs ... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Geographical bias in physiological data limits predictions of global change impacts. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/13…

Time course of acclimation of critical thermal limits in two springtail species (Collembola) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Diatoms define a novel freshwater biogeography of the Antarctic onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ec…

A new @MonashUni led study has shown that Charles Darwin was right about why insects are losing the ability to fly. bit.ly/33UL3XH @LeihyR @StevenChown1 @MonashBiol

Wind plays a major but not exclusive role in the prevalence of insect flight loss on remote islands | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…