Growth and development of an invasive forest insect under current and future projected temperature regimes.

ABSTRACT: Temperature and its impact on fitness are fundamental for understanding range shifts and population dynamics under climate change. Geographic climate heterogeneity, behavioral and physiological plasticity, and thermal adaptation to local climates make predicting the responses of species to climate change complex. Using larvae from seven geographically distinct wild populations in the eastern United States of the non-native forest pest Lymantria dispar dispar (L.), we conducted a simulated reciprocal transplant experiment in environmental chambers using six custom temperature regimes representing contemporary conditions near the southern and northern extremes of the US invasion front and projections under two climate change scenarios for the year 2050. Larval growth and development r

SUBMITTER: Walter JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9204848 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature