Aerial colonization of high Arctic islands by invertebrates: The diamondback moth Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Yponomeutidae) as a potential indicator species

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 327-334

  Coulson, S J ^a   Hodkinson, I D ^a   Webb, N R ^b   Mikkola, K ^c   Harrison, J A ^a   Pedgley, D E ^d  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Colonization; Ecophysiology; Host plant; Migration; Survival

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; IMMIGRATION; MIGRATORY SPECIES; MOTH;

ANIMALIA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PLUTELLA XYLOSTELLA; YPONOMEUTIDAE;

EID: 0036843015     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1472-4642.2002.00157.x     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Baker, R.H.A., Sansford, C.E., Jarvis, C.H., Cannon, R.J.C., MacLeod, A. & Walters, K.F.A. (2000) The role of climatic mapping in predicting the potential geographic distribution of non-indigenous pests under current and future climates. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 82, 57-71.
2. Bale, J.S., Hodkinson, I.D., Block, W., Webb, N.R., Coulson, S.J. & Strathdee, A.T. (1997) Life history strategies of Arctic terrestrial arthropods. Ecology of Arctic Environments. British Ecological Society Special Publication 13 (ed. by S. Woodin and M. Marquis), pp. 137-165. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford.
3. Butts, R.A. & McEwen, F.L. (1981) Seasonal populations of the Diamondback Moth Plutella xylostella (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae) in relation to day-degree accumulation. Canadian Entomologist 13, 127-131.
4. Chown, S.L. & Avenant, N. (1992) Status of Plutella xylostella at Marion Island six years after its colonisation. South African Journal of Antarctic Research 22, 37-40.
5. Clark, J.S. (1998) Why trees migrate so fast: Confronting theory with dispersal biology and the paleorecord. American Naturalist 152, 204-224.
6. Coulson, S.J., Hodkinson, I.D., Jussila, R., Webb, N.R. & Harrison, J.A. (2002) Atractodes pusillus Förster, 1876 and Stenomacrus groenlandicus Jussila, 1996 (Hymenoptera; Ichneumonidae), new records to Svalbard Norway. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 48, 328.
7. Coulson, S.J. & Refseth, D. (2002) The terrestrial and freshwater invertebrate fauna of Svalbard and Jan Mayen: a species and reference checklist. A Catalogue of the Svalbard Terrestrial and Marine Animals: Invertebrates, Fishes, Birds and Mammals. Norsk Polarinstitutts Skrifter 201, in press.
8. Davis, A.J., Jenkinson, L.S., Lawton, J.H., Shorrocks, B. & Wood, S. (1998) Making mistakes when predicting shifts in species range in response to global warming. Nature 391, 783-786.
9. Drake, V.A. & Farrow, R.A. (1988) The influence of atmospheric structure and motions on insect migration. Annual Review of Entomology 33, 183-210.
10. Elton, C.S. (1925) The dispersal of insects to Spitsbergen. Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London 1925, 289-299.
11. Elton, C.S. & Longstaff, T.G. (1934) Aphids and hover-flies in North-East Land (Spitsbergen) in 1924: An additional note. Greenland and Spitsbergen Papers. Scientific Results of the Oxford University Expedition to Greenland in 1928 Together with Some Further Results of the Oxford Expeditions to Spitsbergen in 1921, 1923 and 1924 23, 76-77.
12. Glick, P.A. (1939) The distribution of insects, spiders and mites within the air. Technical Bulletin of the US Department of Agriculture 673, 1-151.
13. Greenstone, M.H. (1990) Meteorological determinants of spider ballooning: The roles of thermals versus the vertical windspeed gradient in becoming airborne. Oecologia 84, 164-168.
14. Hanssen-Bauer, I. & Førland, E. (1998) Long term trends in precipitation and temperature in the Norwegian artic: Can they be explained by changes in atmospheric circulation patterns? Climate Research 10, 143-153.
15. Hanssen-Bauer, I. & Førland, E. (2001) Verification and analysis of a climate simulation of temperature and pressure fields over Norway and Svalbard. Climatic Research 16, 225-235.
16. Harcourt, D.G. (1957) Biology of the diamondback moth, Plutella maculipennis (Curt.), in eastern Ontario. Canadian Entomologist 89, 554-564.
17. Holm, Å. (1958) The spiders of the Isfjord region of Spitsbergen. Zoologiska Bidrag Från Uppsal 33, 29-67.
18. IPCC (2001) Summaries for policymakers WG I. Climate change 2001: the scientific basis. IPCC Third Assessment Report: Contributions of IPCC Working Groups. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
19. Kaisila, J. (1962) Immigration und Expansion der Lepidoptera in Finnland in den Jahren 1869-1960. Acta Entomologica Fennica 18, 1-452.
20. Kaisila, J. (1973) Notes on the arthropod fauna of Spitsbergen. III, 15. The Lepidoptera of Spitsbergen. Annales Entomologici Fennici 39, 60-63.
21. Lindroth, C.H., Andersson, H., Bödvarsson, H. & Richter, S.H. (1973) Surtsey, Iceland. The development of a new fauna. 1963-70. Terrestrial invertebrates. Entomologica Scandinavicasupplement 5, 7-280.
22. Lokki, J., Malmström, K.K. & Suomalainen, E. (1978) Migration of Vanessa cardui new record and Plutella xylostella Lepidoptera to Spitsbergen, Norway in the summer 1978. Notulae Entomologicae 58, 121-123.
23. Mikkola, K. (2001) The weather and insect migrations in Finland in 2000. Baptria 26, 93-98.
24. Parry, W. (1828) Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole in Boats Fitted Out Out for the Purpose in the Year 1827. John Murray, London.
25. Pedgley, D.E., Reynolds, D.R. & Tatchell, G.M. (1995) Long range insect migration in relation to climate and weather: Africa and Europe. Insect Migration: Tracking Resources Through Space and Time (ed. by U.A. Drake and A.G. Gatehouse), pp. 3-29. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
26. Rainey, R.C. (1974) Biometeorology and insect flight: Some aspects of energy exchange. Annual Review of Entomology 19, 407-439.
27. Serreze, M.C., Walsh, J.E., Chapin, F.S., Osterkamp, T., Dyurgerov, M., Romanowsky, V., Oechel, W.C., Morison, J., Zhang, T. & Barry, R.G. (2000) Observational evidence of recent change in the northern high-latitude environment. Climatic Change 46, 159-207.
28. Shaw, M.W. (1962) The Diamondback migration of 1958. Weather 17, 221-234.
29. Shirai, Y. (1991) Seasonal changes and effects of temperature on flight ability of the Diamondback Moth Plutella xylostella. (L.) (Lepidoptera, Yponomeutidae). Applied Entomology and Zoology 26, 107-115.
30. Southwood, T.R.E. (1962) Migration of terrestrial arthropods in relation to habitat. Biological Reviews 37, 171-214.
31. Talekar, N.S. & Shelton, A.M. (1993) Biology, ecology, and management of the diamondback moth. Annual Review of Entomology 38, 275-301.
32. Walsh, J.E., Chapman, W.L. & Shy, T.L. (1996) Recent decrease of sea level pressure in the central Arctic. Journal of Climate 9, 480-486.
33. Williams, C.B. (1958) Insect Migration. Collins, London.