… was modified to account for a variety of insect species, minimise the number of required …
Computer simulation models have become a vital tool in ecology, used to simulate a …

… present guidelines for model selection using statistical criteria and the assessment of biological
relevance of fits, exemplified throughout a Lepidoptera pest … of development rate thermal …

… rely on two principles: a thermal performance curve (TPC), … model of individual-based,
temperature-driven development … used to simulate one year of larval development in the wild, to …

… our understanding of current and future insect responses. … to the field might require some
additional considerations. First, … of an underlying, temperature-driven, diapause termination rate …

… models for insect pests often rely on knowledge of thermal reaction norms. These may
differ in shape depending on developmental thermal … require precise phenological models. …

… the thermal requirements and population growth parameters … Temperature-driven models
are important tools for predicting the thermal response (reaction norms) of insect development …

… study concerning the modelling of an invasive insect pest, the spotted wing drosophila …
insect the general model presented in this paper has been particularized using the development, …

… On the whole, SWD can survive in thermal conditions … This result is important because the
model application needs the early … effort is still required to improve the model’s reliability. For …

… provide useful information for improving control of this pest. … These models, based on
temperature-driven processes, can … the heat required to complete diapause to have accumulated. …

… : (1) to develop a temperature-driven phenology model using a … were arranged as required
by the “model builder” of ILCYM … scenarios may therefore favor the host pest since it will grow …