Impact of global warming on insects

Abstract

Climate change is the most debated issue of time-posing hazardous impacts on life on earth. Like other living entities, insects are also influenced by rising temperatures, elevated carbon dioxide (CO2) and fluctuating precipitating patterns as range expansion, increased epizootics (insect outbreaks) and new species introduction in regions where previously these were not reported. Increasing temperature and elevated CO2 have substantial impacts on plant-insect interaction and integrated pest management programmes. Rising temperature leading to rapid development of insects and increasing the epizootics of harmful insects is a precarious threat not only to agroforestry but to urban extents as well. By employing the proactive and modern scientific management strategies like monitoring, modelling prediction, planning, risk rating, genetic diversity and breeding for resistance, the suspicions innate to climate change effects on can be diminished.

Publication
Archives of Phytopathology and Plant Protection, 48(1)
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