Spatiotemporal dynamics of forest insect populations under climate change

DM Johnson, KJ Haynes - Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Forest insect responses to climate change are largely species-specific.•Forest
insect outbreaks are overall increasing under climate change.•Climate acts more directly on …

Changes in major insect pests of pine forests in Korea over the last 50 years

WI Choi, Y Nam, CY Lee, BK Choi, YJ Shin, JH Lim… - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Understanding the occurrence patterns of forest pests is fundamental for effective forest
management from both economic and ecological perspectives. Here, we review the history …

Aerospace-foraging bats eat seasonably across varying habitats

J Aihartza, N Vallejo, M Aldasoro, JL García-Mudarra… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Recent research has confirmed the efficiency of insectivorous bats as pest suppressors,
underlining the ecological services they offer in agroecosystems. Therefore, some efforts try …

Effects of soil temperature and moisture on the development and survival of grasshopper eggs in inner mongolian grasslands

T Wu, S Hao, L Kang - Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Grasshopper eggs overwinter in soil for almost half a year. Changes in soil temperature and
moisture have a substantial effect on grasshopper eggs, especially temperature and …

The causes and consequences of pest population variability in agricultural landscapes

D Paredes, JA Rosenheim, DS Karp - Ecological Applications, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Variability in population densities is key to the ecology of natural systems but also has great
implications for agriculture. Farmers' decisions are heavily influenced by their risk aversion …

Accounting for long‐term directional trends on year‐to‐year synchrony in species fluctuations

J Lepš, L Götzenberger, E Valencia, F de Bello - Ecography, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
What determines the stability of communities under environmental fluctuations remains one
of the most debated questions in ecology. Scholars generally agree that the similarity in year …

Growth and development of an invasive forest insect under current and future projected temperature regimes

JA Walter, LM Thompson, SD Powers… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Temperature and its impact on fitness are fundamental for understanding range shifts and
population dynamics under climate change. Geographic climate heterogeneity, behavioral …

Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8‐year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle

SE Emery, M Klapwijk, R Sigvald… - Journal of Animal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Population cycles have been observed in mammals as well as insects, but consistent
population cycling has rarely been documented in agroecosystems and never for a beetle …

Weather and regional crop composition variation drive spatial synchrony of lepidopteran agricultural pests

JA Walter, LW Sheppard, PD Venugopal… - Ecological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
1. Spatial synchrony, the tendency for temporal population fluctuations to be correlated
across multiple locations at regional scales, is common and contributes to the severity of …

Directional trends in species composition over time can lead to a widespread overemphasis of year‐to‐year asynchrony

E Valencia, F De Bello, J Lepš… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Questions Compensatory dynamics are described as one of the main mechanisms that
increase community stability, eg, where decreases of some species on a year‐to‐year basis …