Responses of forest insect pests to climate change: not so simple

• Published in: Current opinion in insect science Vol. 35; pp. 103 - 108
• Main Authors: Jactel, Hervé, Koricheva, Julia, Castagneyrol, Bastien
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.10.2019; Elsevier
• Subjects: abiotic stress; Air Pollution - adverse effects; Animals; Carbon Dioxide; carbon dioxide enrichment; Climate Change; drought; fecundity; forest health; forest insects; forest pests; Forests; heat; Herbivory; insect pests; Insecta - physiology; Life Sciences; natural enemies; parasitoids; phytophagous insects; population dynamics; storms; synergism; temperature; tissues; trees; Trees - parasitology; Trees - physiology
• ISSN: 2214-5745; 2214-5745; 2214-5753
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cois.2019.07.010

Climate change is a multi-faceted phenomenon, including elevated CO2, warmer temperatures, more severe droughts and more frequent storms. All these components can affect forest pests directly, or indirectly through interactions with host trees and natural enemies. Most of the responses of forest ins...