Crop pests and pathogens move polewards in a warming world

By D. Bebber, Mark A. T. Ramotowski, Sarah J. Gurr. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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The 2022 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels (2022, positive): “143,144 148 Exposure to high temperatures and extreme weather events reduces labour capacity, and 65% of all potential hours of labour lost globally occurred in the agricultural sector, with agricultural workers in low and medium HDI countries disproportionately affected (indicator 1.1.4).”
Clay nanosheets for topical delivery of RNAi for sustained protection against plant viruses (2017, background): “1), we demonstrate that (1) LDH nanosheets can load large dsRNA to form dsRNA–LDH complexes referred to as BioClay; (2) the dsRNA in BioClay is protected from nuclease activity, and can be detected on the leaf surface even 30 days after topical spray; (3) BioClay facilitates sustained release of dsR”
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, positive): “For crops, a variety of interacting factors are important when one is considering response to pathogens, including CO 2 levels, climatic changes, plant health and species-specific plant– pathogen interactions 233 .”
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being (2017, positive): “However, the ability to deliver food through agriculture will be altered via the direct effects of climate change, as the distributions and abundances of pollinators change and as plant pathogens and pests become more prevalent or emerge in new places as a result of global warming (91, 92).”
Control of crop diseases through Integrated Crop Management to deliver climate-smart farming systems for low- and high-input crop production (2021, background): “Climate change is also expected to expand pathogen distribution to higher latitudes (Bebber et al., 2013; Chaloner et al., 2021).”
The global spread of crop pests and pathogens (2014, methodology): “, 2011) and pests (Bebber et al., 2013), crops may be less able to track favoured climates to higher latitudes because many plants are entrained to particular photoperiods (Parry et al.”
A Sustainable Agricultural Future Relies on the Transition to Organic Agroecological Pest Management (2018, background): “Pest challenges vary over seasons, and it is difficult to predict how this variation will shift in the face of climate change [17], but warming has expanded previous ranges of pests from equatorial regions to farther toward the poles [18].”
Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems. (2014, background): “Over the coming decades, pest damage may worsen due to the response of pest species to global climate change (Birch et al., 2011) and the distribution of pests and pathogens will change (Bebber et al., 2013).”
Complex responses of global insect pests to climate warming (2020, background): “Overall socioeconomic and ecological impacts have reportedly increased across the geographic ranges of species that have shown a response to climate warming (Andrew et al. 2013; Bebber et al. 2013).”
Climate change, food security and mycotoxins: Do we know enough? (2017, background): “Recent predictions by Bebber et al. (2013) suggest that pests and diseases are migrating to the poles at the rate of 3-5 km/year, with the diversity of pest populations becoming significantly changed (Crespo et al., 2015).”
Tapping the economic and nutritional power of vegetables (2017, background): “Indications are that the intensity of pest and disease pressures may increase due to climate change (Bebber et al., 2013) so methods of mitigation will assume even greater importance going forward.”
Multigenerational migration of fall armyworm, a pest insect (2019, background): “Such information will become increasingly relevant as changes in climate alter air transport systems and destabilize ecosystems, with unknown consequences to pest migration patterns although poleward shifts of pest distributions have already been reported (Bebber et al. 2013).”