Open AccessClimate change impacts on pest ecology and risks to pasture resilience
Author(s) -
Sarah Mansfield,
C. M. Ferguson,
P.J. Gerard,
David Hodges,
John M. Kean,
C.B. Phillips,
S. Hardwick,
S. M. Zydenbos
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
grassland research and practice series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2463-4751
pISSN - 0110-8581
DOI - 10.33584/rps.17.2021.3477
Subject(s) - climate change , pasture , resilience (materials science) , pest analysis , psychological resilience , ecology , agroforestry , environmental science , integrated pest management , geography , biology , psychology , botany , physics , psychotherapist , thermodynamics
It is well understood that damage by insect pests can have serious consequences for pasture resilience. However, the impacts of climate change on pastoral systems, the responses of insect pests, and implications for pest impact mitigation are unclear. This paper reviews pest responses to climate change, including direct impacts such as temperature and carbon dioxide levels, geographic range expansion, sleeper pests, and outbreaks resulting from disturbance such as drought and farm system changes. The paper concludes with a plea for transdisciplinary research into pasture resilience under climate change that has insect pests as an integral component – not as an afterthought.