作者
Christine N Meynard, Michel Lecoq, Marie‐Pierre Chapuis, Cyril Piou
发表日期
2020/7
期刊
Global Change Biology
卷号
26
期号
7
页码范围
3753-3755
简介
The current outbreak of the desert locust has affected much of eastern Africa and has reached as far as Pakistan and India in Asia, generating significant agricultural losses in a region that is already highly unstable economically, politically and in terms of food security for its human populations (FAO, 2020). Desert locust outbreaks require a combination of weather, soil and vegetation conditions that favour the reproduction and aggregation of otherwise solitary individuals (Despland, Collett, & Simpson, 2000; Figure 1a). When those conditions appear, locusts aggregate, multiply in large numbers and migrate long distances, turning into a plague and devastating crops on their way. Solitary populations, which act as reservoirs for the gregarious forms, are likely to shrink their distribution under climate change because of a decrease in moisture and increased temperatures in much of the current recession range …
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