Assessing insect responses to climate change: What are we testing for? Where should we be heading?

PeerJ

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Andrew, Nigel R ^a   Hill, Sarah J ^a   Binns, Matthew ^a   Bahar, Md Habibullah ^a,d   Ridley, Emma V ^b   Jung, Myung Pyo ^a,c   Fyfe, Chris ^a   Yates, Michelle ^a   Khusro, Mohammad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c National Academy of Agricultural Science   (South Korea)

^d SASKATOON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate modelling; Desktop study; Entomology; Published research

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIPTERA; FORESTRY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT; INSECT; LEPIDOPTERA; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PUBLICATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE STRESS;

EID: 84877128039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11     Document Type: Article

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