Data from: Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate
Cite this dataset
Deutsch, Curtis A. et al. (2019). Data from: Increase in crop losses to insect pests in a warming climate [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.b7q3g2q
Abstract
Insect pests substantially reduce yields of three staple grains—rice, maize, and wheat—but models assessing the agricultural impacts of global warming rarely consider crop losses to insects. We use established relationships between temperature and the population growth and metabolic rates of insects to estimate how and where climate warming will augment losses of rice, maize, and wheat to insects. Global yield losses of these grains are projected to increase by 10 to 25% per degree of global mean surface warming. Crop losses will be most acute in areas where warming increases both population growth and metabolic rates of insects. These conditions are centered primarily in temperate regions, where most grain is produced.
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Funding
National Science Foundation, Award: OCE-1419323 and OCE-1458967
Location
global