A call to insect scientists: Challenges and opportunities of managing insect communities under climate change
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Abstract
As climate change moves insect systems into uncharted territory, more knowledge about insect dynamics and the factors that drive them could enable us to better manage and conserve insect communities. Climate change may also require us revisit insect management goals and strategies and lead to a new kind of scientific engagement in management decision-making. Here we make five key points about the role of insect science in aiding and crafting management decisions, and we illustrate those points with the monarch butterfly and the Karner blue butterfly, two species undergoing considerable change and facing new management dilemmas. Insect biology has a strong history of engagement in applied problems, and as the impacts of climate change increase, a reimagined ethic of entomology in service of broader society may emerge. We hope to motivate insect biologists to contribute time and effort toward solving the challenges of climate change.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | A call to insect scientists: Challenges and opportunities of managing insect communities under climate change |
| Series title | Current Opinion in Insect Science |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.cois.2016.08.005 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Year Published | 2016 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Publisher location | Amsterdam |
| Contributing office(s) | Great Lakes Science Center |
| Description | 6 p. |
| First page | 92 |
| Last page | 97 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | N |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
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