PeerJ Editor & Author

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Nigel R Andrew

PeerJ Editor & Author

Summary

My current research interests focus on the impacts that climate change will have on insect behaviour, ecology and physiology; insect community structure along environmental gradients; and insect-plant interactions.
I am currently Editor-in-Chief of Austral Ecology.

Animal Behavior Biodiversity Biogeography Climate Change Biology Ecology Entomology

Editing Sections

Zoological Science

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of New England

Work details

Professor of Entomology

University of New England

January 2005

Zoology

Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology

Websites

PeerJ Contributions

November 17, 2021

Estimating the differences in critical thermal maximum and metabolic rate of Helicoverpa punctigera (Wallengren) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) across life stages

Samuel A. Bawa, Peter C. Gregg, Alice P. Del Soccoro, Cara Miller, Nigel R. Andrew

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12479 PubMed 34820201

September 25, 2020

Dung beetle species introductions: when an ecosystem service provider transforms into an invasive species

Min R. Pokhrel, Stuart C. Cairns, Nigel R. Andrew

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9872 PubMed 33062417

January 10, 2019

Aridity and land use negatively influence a dominant species' upper critical thermal limits

Nigel R. Andrew, Cara Miller, Graham Hall, Zac Hemmings, Ian Oliver

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6252 PubMed 30656070

August 31, 2017

Remote sensing and spatial statistical techniques for modelling Ommatissus lybicus (Hemiptera: Tropiduchidae) habitat and population densities

Khalifa M. Al-Kindi, Paul Kwan, Nigel R. Andrew, Mitchell Welch

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3752 PubMed 28875085

August 2, 2016

The physiological consequences of varied heat exposure events in adult Myzus persicae: a single prolonged exposure compared to repeated shorter exposures

Behnaz Ghaedi, Nigel R. Andrew

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2290 PubMed 27547583

March 4, 2014

Morphological traits: predictable responses to macrohabitats across a 300 km scale

Michelle L. Yates, Nigel R. Andrew, Matthew Binns, Heloise Gibb

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.271 PubMed 24688850

February 12, 2013

Assessing insect responses to climate change: What are we testing for? Where should we be heading?

Nigel R. Andrew, Sarah J. Hill, Matthew Binns, Md Habibullah Bahar, Emma V. Ridley, Myung-Pyo Jung, Chris Fyfe, Michelle Yates, Mohammad Khusro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11 PubMed 23638345

April 13, 2018 - Version: 1

Ant thermal tolerances under climate, land cover and land use change

Nigel R Andrew, Cara Miller, Graham Hall, Zac Hemmings, Ian Oliver

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26854v1

January 13, 2017 - Version: 1

Remote sensing and geographical information analytical techniques for modelling Ommatissus lybicus (Hemiptera: Tropiduchidae) habitat and population densities

Khalifa M Al-Kindi, Paul Kwan, Nigel Andrew, Mitchell Welch

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2716v1

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October 31, 2022

Use of fermented spent coffee grounds as a substrate supplement for rearing black soldier fly larvae, Hermetia illucens (L), (Diptera: Stratiomyidae)

Kanyanat Khaekratoke, Parichart Laksanawimol, Anchana Thancharoen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14340 PubMed 36340198

April 25, 2022

Do patterns of insect mortality in temperate and tropical zones have broader implications for insect ecology and pest management?

José R. L. Pinto, Odair A. Fernandes, Leon G. Higley, Robert K. D. Peterson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13340 PubMed 35497182

December 15, 2021

Sex-specific covariance between metabolic rate, behaviour and morphology in the ground beetle Carabus hortensis

Elisabeth Yarwood, Claudia Drees, Jeremy E. Niven, Wiebke Schuett

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12455 PubMed 35003913

February 24, 2021

Evidence of phenotypic plasticity along an altitudinal gradient in the dung beetle Onthophagus proteus

Roisin A. Stanbrook, W. Edwin Harris, Charles P. Wheater, Martin Jones

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10798 PubMed 33665014

September 8, 2020

Mechanisms of diversity maintenance in dung beetle assemblages in a heterogeneous tropical landscape

Jose D. Rivera, Benigno Gómez, Darío A. Navarrete-Gutiérrez, Lorena Ruíz-Montoya, Leonardo Delgado, Mario E. Favila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9860 PubMed 33665001

August 7, 2020

The ability of the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) to penetrate mesh crop covers used to protect potato crops against tomato potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli)

Howard London, David J. Saville, Charles N. Merfield, Oluwashola Olaniyan, Stephen D. Wratten

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9317 PubMed 32995071

June 7, 2019

Reduced thermal variability in cities and its impact on honey bee thermal tolerance

Karina Sánchez-Echeverría, Ignacio Castellanos, Luis Mendoza-Cuenca, Iriana Zuria, Gerardo Sánchez-Rojas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7060 PubMed 31211017

March 11, 2019

Draft Aphaenogaster genomes expand our view of ant genome size variation across climate gradients

Matthew K. Lau, Aaron M. Ellison, Andrew Nguyen, Clint Penick, Bernice DeMarco, Nicholas J. Gotelli, Nathan J. Sanders, Robert R. Dunn, Sara Helms Cahan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6447 PubMed 30881761

October 9, 2018

Do an ecosystem engineer and environmental gradient act independently or in concert to shape juvenile plant communities? Tests with the leaf-cutter ant Atta laevigata in a Neotropical savanna

Alan N. Costa, Emilio M. Bruna, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5612 PubMed 30324010

September 20, 2018

Spatial and temporal variations of aridity shape dung beetle assemblages towards the Sahara desert

Indradatta deCastro-Arrazola, Joaquín Hortal, Marco Moretti, Francisco Sánchez-Piñero

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5210 PubMed 30258704

July 19, 2018

The importance of dung beetles and arthropod communities on degradation of cattle dung pats in eastern South Dakota

Jacob R. Pecenka, Jonathan G. Lundgren

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5220 PubMed 30038867

May 24, 2018

The role of gut microbiota in the regulation of standard metabolic rate in female Periplaneta americana

Paul A. Ayayee, Andrew Ondrejech, George Keeney, Agustí Muñoz-Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4717 PubMed 29844953

February 27, 2018

High variability of dung beetle diversity patterns at four mountains of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt

Alfonsina Arriaga-Jiménez, Matthias Rös, Gonzalo Halffter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4468 PubMed 29507842

June 20, 2017

Larval exposure to field-realistic concentrations of clothianidin has no effect on development rate, over-winter survival or adult metabolic rate in a solitary bee, Osmia bicornis

Elizabeth Nicholls, Robert Fowler, Jeremy E. Niven, James D. Gilbert, Dave Goulson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3417 PubMed 28649467

May 18, 2017

Exoskeleton may influence the internal body temperatures of Neotropical dung beetles (Col. Scarabaeinae)

Valentina Amore, Malva I.M. Hernández, Luis M. Carrascal, Jorge M. Lobo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3349 PubMed 28533987

April 4, 2017

Variegated tropical landscapes conserve diverse dung beetle communities

Cristiane Costa, Victor Hugo F. Oliveira, Rafaella Maciel, Wallace Beiroz, Vanesca Korasaki, Julio Louzada

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3125 PubMed 28392980

January 12, 2017

Effects of grazing intensity and the use of veterinary medical products on dung beetle biodiversity in the sub-mountainous landscape of Central Italy

Mattia Tonelli, José R. Verdú, Mario E. Zunino

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2780 PubMed 28097048

July 12, 2016

Shades of yellow: interactive effects of visual and odour cues in a pest beetle

Sarah E.J. Arnold, Philip C. Stevenson, Steven R. Belmain

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2219 PubMed 27478707

January 25, 2016

Experimental modulation of external microbiome affects nestmate recognition in harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)

Andy Dosmann, Nassim Bahet, Deborah M. Gordon

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1566 PubMed 26855857

November 30, 2015

Preference of a native beetle for “exoticism,” characteristics that contribute to invasive success of Costelytra zealandica (Scarabaeidae: Melolonthinae)

Marie-Caroline Lefort, Stéphane Boyer, Jessica Vereijssen, Rowan Sprague, Travis R. Glare, Susan P. Worner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1454 PubMed 26644985

October 22, 2015

Urban habitat complexity affects species richness but not environmental filtering of morphologically-diverse ants

Alessandro Ossola, Michael A. Nash, Fiona J. Christie, Amy K. Hahs, Stephen J. Livesley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1356 PubMed 26528416

September 15, 2015

A near-infrared spectroscopy routine for unambiguous identification of cryptic ant species

Martin-Carl Kinzner, Herbert C. Wagner, Andrea Peskoller, Karl Moder, Floyd E. Dowell, Wolfgang Arthofer, Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner, Florian M. Steiner

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.991 PubMed 26734510

July 2, 2015

Divergent thermal specialisation of two South African entomopathogenic nematodes

Matthew P. Hill, Antoinette P. Malan, John S. Terblanche

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1023 PubMed 26157609

December 23, 2014

Confirmation bias leads to overestimation of losses of woody plant foliage to insect herbivores in tropical regions

Mikhail V. Kozlov, Vitali Zverev, Elena L. Zvereva

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.709 PubMed 25551025

June 10, 2014

Continental variation in wing pigmentation in Calopteryx damselflies is related to the presence of heterospecifics

Christopher Hassall