Effects of drought on contrasting insect and plant species in the UK in the mid-1990s

By M. Morecroft, C. Bealey, O. Howells, S. Rennie, I. Woiwod. 2002

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas (2017, background): “Climate change is a well-known factor responsible for insect declines [15, 18, 21, 37].”
Summer drought alters plant‐mediated competition between foliar‐ and root‐feeding insects (2007, background): “Summer drought can alter the distribution and abundance of both plants and their invertebrate herbivores (Buckland et al., 1997; Morecroft et al., 2002), but the impact of drought on competition between phytophages has been less well studied (Harrington et al., 1999).”
Relationships between land snail assemblage patterns and soil properties in temperate‐humid forest ecosystems (2004, background): “For example, Morecroft et al. (2002) found that species composition of butterflies and carabid beetles in Great Britain was affected by drought in an extremely hot summer.”
The influences of landscape structure on butterfly distribution and movement: a review (2009, background): “The impact of some of these factors may change e.g. increased average temperatures through climate change are expected to be accompanied by increased variability in weather conditions (Easterling et al. 2000; Morecroft et al. 2002): e.g. drought (Roy and Sparks 2000) and precipitation.”
The UK Environmental Change Network: Emerging trends in the composition of plant and animal communities and the physical environment (2009, methodology): “Flight period – (Morecroft et al., 2002) 7.”
Effects of altered precipitation on insect community composition and structure in a meadow steppe (2014, background): “On the one hand, changes in precipitation are associated with variation in other abiotic environmental conditions, which could alter the phenology and performance of insects (Morecroft et al., 2002; Guo et al., 2009), consequently influencing insect community dynamics directly.”
Impacts of climate on prey abundance account for fluctuations in a population of a northern wader at the southern edge of its range (2010, background): “…invertebrates, such as craneflies, are also predicted to be vulnerable to increases in summer temperature (Bale et al., 2002) and observed responses of upland arthropods in general to higher summer temperatures, albeit associated with drought, support such predictions (Morecroft et al., 2002).”
Changing precipitation patterns alter plant community dynamics and succession in an ex-arable grassland (2004, background): “Agricultural and recent seminatural grasslands appear to be particularly sensitive to drought (Morecroft et al. 2002).”