Climate change could mean more intense locust outbreaks, threat to food security

by Dominique Perkins, Arizona State University
September 29, 2022

A new study by a research team from Arizona State University has found that climate change will dramatically increase the intensity of locust swarms, resulting in even more crops lost to insect pests and threatening food security.

The study, recently published in Ecological Monographs, outlines the results of considerable data gathered on the physiology of South American locusts, and demonstrates that species distribution models that consider physiology in addition to temperature may reshape what we can expect to see as climate change continues.x

Keep reading: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecm.1550

Read the Ecological Monographs paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecm.1550