Dry heat increases bark beetle bite!
Climate change appears to be good news for destructive bark beetles, according to a new study by Lorenzo Marini from the University of Padova in Italy, and his team. Their work, published online in Springer'sClimatic Change, shows that there were more attacks by the spruce bark beetle on European Alpine spruce forests over a 16 year period, as temperatures rose and rainfall dropped. Shifts in temperature, rainfall, and atmospheric gas concentrations, as well as destructive activities by pests and pathogens, are having a profound effect on forest ecosystems. The spruce bark beetles typographys (L.) in particular, is one of the most destructive pests of the European forests, and it is expected to quickly respond to climate change. Forest damage due to this bark beetle has increased markedly during the last decades throughout the whole of Europe
Climate change appears to be good news for destructive bark beetles, according to a new study by Lorenzo Marini from the University of Padova in Italy, and his team. Their work, published online in Springer'sClimatic Change, shows that there were more attacks by the spruce bark beetle on European Alpine spruce forests over a 16 year period, as temperatures rose and rainfall dropped. Shifts in temperature, rainfall, and atmospheric gas concentrations, as well as destructive activities by pests and pathogens, are having a profound effect on forest ecosystems. The spruce bark beetles typographys (L.) in particular, is one of the most destructive pests of the European forests, and it is expected to quickly respond to climate change. Forest damage due to this bark beetle has increased markedly during the last decades throughout the whole of Europe
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