Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

JA Harvey, K Tougeron, R Gols, R Heinen… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate warming is considered to be among the most serious of anthropogenic stresses to
the environment, because it not only has direct effects on biodiversity, but it also exacerbates …

Survive a warming climate: insect responses to extreme high temperatures

CS Ma, G Ma, S Pincebourde - Annual Review of Entomology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Global change includes a substantial increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme high
temperatures (EHTs), which influence insects at almost all levels. The number of studies …

Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

J Lenoir, R Bertrand, L Comte, L Bourgeaud… - Nature ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
There is mounting evidence of species redistribution as climate warms. Yet, our knowledge
of the coupling between species range shifts and isotherm shifts remains limited. Here, we …

Thermal biology of mosquito‐borne disease

EA Mordecai, JM Caldwell, MK Grossman… - Ecology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Mosquito‐borne diseases cause a major burden of disease worldwide. The vital rates of
these ectothermic vectors and parasites respond strongly and nonlinearly to temperature …

Future temperature extremes threaten land vertebrates

G Murali, T Iwamura, S Meiri, U Roll - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme thermal events are increasing and are
projected to further increase by the end of the century,. Despite the considerable …

The effect of global change on mosquito-borne disease

LHV Franklinos, KE Jones, DW Redding… - The Lancet infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
More than 80% of the global population is at risk of a vector-borne disease, with mosquito-
borne diseases being the largest contributor to human vector-borne disease burden …

Detecting the impact of temperature on transmission of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya using mechanistic models

EA Mordecai, JM Cohen, MV Evans… - PLoS neglected …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Recent epidemics of Zika, dengue, and chikungunya have heightened the need to
understand the seasonal and geographic range of transmission by Aedes aegypti and Ae …

Increased temperature variation poses a greater risk to species than climate warming

DA Vasseur, JP DeLong, B Gilbert… - … of the royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Increases in the frequency, severity and duration of temperature extremes are anticipated in
the near future. Although recent work suggests that changes in temperature variation will …

Insects in fluctuating thermal environments

H Colinet, BJ Sinclair, P Vernon… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
All climate change scenarios predict an increase in both global temperature means and the
magnitude of seasonal and diel temperature variation. The nonlinear relationship between …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change and human health in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East: Literature review, research priorities and policy suggestions

M Neira, K Erguler, H Ahmady-Birgani… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Human health is linked to climatic factors in complex ways, and climate change can have
profound direct and indirect impacts on the health status of any given region. Susceptibility …