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Nigel R. Andrew

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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 Managing Editor of Austral Ecology.

Animal Behavior Biodiversity Biogeography Climate Change Biology Ecology Entomology

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University of New England

Work details

Associate Professor of Entomology

University of New England

Zoology

Centre for Behavioural and Physiological Ecology

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PeerJ Contributions

August 31, 2017

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

1 citation

620 downloads

1,582 views

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

4 citations

314 downloads

1,178 views

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

16 citations

837 downloads

2,808 views

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?

55 citations

2,248 downloads

21,179 views

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

72 downloads

197 views

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

407 downloads

407 views

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

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

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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

16 downloads

159 views

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

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

September 20, 2018

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

49 downloads

156 views

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

96 downloads

1,206 views

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

109 downloads

455 views

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

1 citation

247 downloads

1,306 views

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

4 citations

394 downloads

2,064 views

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)

3 citations

276 downloads

1,245 views

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

1 citation

418 downloads

1,702 views

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

4 citations

337 downloads

1,592 views

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

2 citations

333 downloads

1,475 views

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)

7 citations

445 downloads

1,814 views

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)

2 citations

310 downloads

1,409 views

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

11 citations

701 downloads

2,564 views

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

4 citations

430 downloads

1,715 views

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

4 citations

258 downloads

1,321 views

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

10 citations

389 downloads