Predicting the potential distribution and forest impact of the invasive species Cydalima perspectalis in Europe.

ABSTRACT: Invasive species have considerably increased in recent decades due to direct and indirect effects of ever-increasing international trade rates and new climate conditions derived from global change. We need to better understand how the dynamics of early species invasions develop and how these result in impacts on the invaded ecosystems. Here we studied the distribution and severe defoliation processes of the box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis W.), a tree defoliator insect native to Asia and invasive in Europe since 2007, through the combination of species distribution models based on climate and landscape composition information. The results showed that the combination of data from the native and the invaded areas was the most effective methodology for the appropriate invasi

SUBMITTER: Canelles Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131781 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature