Experimental Background to the Study of the Distribution and Abundance of Insects: I. The Influence of Temperature, Moisture and Food on the Innate Capacity for Increase of Three Grain Beetles

Birch, L. C.

doi:10.2307/1931333

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“…32 However, the spatial distribution of the containers with larvae and/or pupae was mostly random (except for bottles and other containers in the second sampling). Because it is well known that in nature many species of insect tend to increase in numbers in favorable places, 37 our results indicate that the distribution of Ae. aegypti in Salto may be more heavily influenced by effects of micro-environmental conditions on container productivity, rather than on differential spatial distribution of the containers.…”

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Mosquito-Producing Containers, Spatial Distribution, and Relationship between Aedes aegypti Population Indices on the Southern Boundary of its Distribution in South America (Salto, Uruguay)

Basso

Caffera²,

Rosa³

et al. 2012

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Abstract. A study was conducted in the city of Salto, Uruguay, to identify mosquito-producing containers, the spatial distribution of mosquitoes and the relationship between the different population indices of Aedes aegypti. On each of 312 premises visited, water-filled containers and immature Ae. aegypti mosquitoes were identified. The containers were counted and classified into six categories. Pupae per person and Stegomyia indices were calculated. Pupae per person were represented spatially. The number of each type of container and number of mosquitoes in each were analyzed and compared, and their spatial distribution was analyzed. No significant differences in the number of the different types of containers with mosquitoes or in the number of mosquitoes in each were found. The distribution of the containers with mosquito was random and the distribution of mosquitoes by type of container was aggregated or highly aggregated.

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Mosquito-Producing Containers, Spatial Distribution, and Relationship between Aedes aegypti Population Indices on the Southern Boundary of its Distribution in South America (Salto, Uruguay)

Basso

Caffera²,

Rosa³

et al. 2012

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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“…Our predictions focus on population growth during establishment, because λ at low density is expected to predict potential distribution well (48). The invasive species in our study are known to exhibit prolific population growth in much of our study area (22,49); hence, we expect that population establishment is the bottleneck limiting invasion.…”

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Climate change both facilitates and inhibits invasive plant ranges in New England

Merow

Bois

Allen

et al. 2017

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Forecasting ecological responses to climate change, invasion, and their interaction must rely on understanding underlying mechanisms. However, such forecasts require extrapolation into new locations and environments. We linked demography and environment using experimental biogeography to forecast invasive and native species' potential ranges under present and future climate in New England, United States to overcome issues of extrapolation in novel environments. We studied two potentially nonequilibrium invasive plants' distributions, Alliaria petiolata (garlic mustard) and Berberis thunbergii (Japanese barberry), each paired with their native ecological analogs to better understand demographic drivers of invasions. Our models predict that climate change will considerably reduce establishment of a currently prolific invader (A. petiolata) throughout New England driven by poor demographic performance in warmer climates. In contrast, invasion of B. thunbergii will be facilitated because of higher growth and germination in warmer climates, with higher likelihood to establish farther north and in closed canopy habitats in the south. Invasion success is in high fecundity for both invasive species and demographic compensation for A. petiolata relative to native analogs. For A. petiolata, simulations suggest that eradication efforts would require unrealistic efficiency; hence, management should focus on inhibiting spread into colder, currently unoccupied areas, understanding source-sink dynamics, and understanding community dynamics should A. petiolata (which is allelopathic) decline. Our results-based on considerable differences with correlative occurrence models typically used for such biogeographic forecasts-suggest the urgency of incorporating mechanism into range forecasting and invasion management to understand how climate change may alter current invasion patterns.demography | integral projection model | garlic mustard | Japanese barberry | species distribution model I nvasions and climate change are two of the primary factors that alter ecological systems. Forecasting ecological responses to these dynamic, potentially no-analog scenarios requires biologists to understand the fundamental processes that regulate change. The interaction of climate change and invasion remains a mystery, although it has been argued that climate change may foster invasions in many cases, whereas inhibition is less likely (1, 2). Studies have focused on such positive interactions (3), because they are readily observed; it is difficult to recognize when climate change has mitigated an invasion simply because there may not be an invasion to study. Only with a mechanistic understanding of how climate regulates life history transitions to mitigate or accelerate invasions can we improve the efficiency of management plans.Links between global change and invasion are complex and idiosyncratic, although in general, climate change, land use change, and increased resource availability seem to favor invasive species over natives (examples are rev...

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“…Daily egg production rate was calculated using the equations in Table 1 based upon data for C. ferrugineus, R. dominica, and T. castaneum published by Smith (1965), Birch (1953), and Howe (1962), respectively. Daily egg production equalled the sum of the number of females multiplied by their daily lifetime average or age-specific egg production rate.…”

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“…Hagstrum & Milliken (Hl88) fitted equations to data from 45 published studies on the effects of these environmental factors on the developmental time of stored-grain insects. Data also are available on the effects of these factors on egg production by Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens) (Smith 1965), Rhyzopertha dominica F. (Birch 1953), and Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Howe 1962). Earlier studies by Longstaff & Cuff (1984) used similar data to simulate the population trends of another stored-product insect pest, Sitophilus oryzae (L.).…”

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Predictability of Stored-Wheat Insect Population Trends from Life History Traits

Hagstrum

Throne

1989

Environmental Entomology

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Experimental Background to the Study of the Distribution and Abundance of Insects: I. The Influence of Temperature, Moisture and Food on the Innate Capacity for Increase of Three Grain Beetles

Cited by 176 publications

References 8 publications

Mosquito-Producing Containers, Spatial Distribution, and Relationship between Aedes aegypti Population Indices on the Southern Boundary of its Distribution in South America (Salto, Uruguay)

Mosquito-Producing Containers, Spatial Distribution, and Relationship between Aedes aegypti Population Indices on the Southern Boundary of its Distribution in South America (Salto, Uruguay)

Climate change both facilitates and inhibits invasive plant ranges in New England

Predictability of Stored-Wheat Insect Population Trends from Life History Traits

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