Will climate change be beneficial or detrimental to the invasive swede midge in North America? Contrasting predictions using climate projections from different general circulation models

Global Change Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1721-1733

  Mika, Anna M ^a   Weiss, Ross M ^b   Olfert, Owen ^b   Hallett, Rebecca H ^a   Newman, Jonathan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agricultural pest; Bioclimatic envelope model; Cimate change; CLIMEX; Elevated temperature; Global warming; Precipitation

Indexed keywords

BIOCLIMATOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CROP PEST; FLY; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GLOBAL WARMING; HADLEY CELL; INVASIVE SPECIES;

NORTH AMERICA;

BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPOBRASSICA; CHIRONOMIDAE; CONTARINIA NASTURTII;

EID: 48949120836     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2008.01620.x     Document Type: Article

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