Aim To describe and compare the diets of an Arctic‐breeding shorebird, the Red Knot ( Calidris canutus ), across three geographically distinct breeding sites. We aimed to document the dietary patterns and identify key prey groups that characterise each population's foraging ecology. Location Northwest Alaska (Nome), Northeast Greenland (Zackenberg) and North‐Central Russia (Taimyr Peninsula). Taxon Red Knot (Aves: Calidris can...

Recent observations of body size declines in animal populations have given rise to discussions of whether or not this is related to climate change‐induced temperature increases, with which the body size changes would follow Bergmann's rule. Although the debate is ongoing, the limited thermal benefits of currently observed size reductions make it unlikely that temperature increase shapes a direct selection pressure. Food constr...

Transcriptomic changes in plants during drought stress give insights into the mechanisms with which plants stabilise their metabolic processes in order to cope with the drought condition. In potato, understanding such drought-induced transcriptomic changes is critical because prolonged field drought interferes with tuber formation and bulking period of potato development, which eventually affects yield. We hypothesised that ph...