Potential risk levels of invasive Neoleucinodes elegantalis (small tomato borer) in areas optimal for open‐field Solanum lycopersicum (tomato) cultivation in the present and under predicted climate change

Abstract

The risk level results presented here provide a useful tool to design strategies to prevent the introduction and establishment of N. elegantalis in open-field S. lycopersicum cultivation. © 2016 Society of Chemical Industry.

Climate change over the high-mountain versus plain areas: Effects on the land surface hydrologic budget in the Alpine area and northern Italy

“…Furthermore, the SRES scenarios by themselves have often been adopted in most recent studies, even long after the release of the RCP scenarios, because the old scenarios were in accord with their objectives (e.g., Dunford et al, 2015;Jaczewski et al, 2015;Kiguchi et al, 2015;Kim et al, 2015;Casajus et al, 2016;Harrison et al, 2016;Mamoon et al, 2016;Stevanović et al, 2016;Tukimat and Alias, 2016;Zheng et al, 2016;Hassan et al, 2017;Park et al, 2017;da Silva et al, 2017). We employed the SRES marker scenarios because of their long-term consistency in assessing the impact of climate change on global and regional factors of socioeconomy and environment during the last decade -including air quality (Jacob and Winner, 2009;Carvalho et al, 2010), water quality and resources (Wilby et al, 2006;Shen et al, 2008Shen et al, , 2014Luo et al, 2013), energy (Hoogwijk et al, 2005;van Vliet et al, 2012), agriculture and forestry (Lavalle et al, 2009;Calzadilla et al, 2013;Stevanović et al, 2016;Zubizarreta-Gerendiain et al, 2016), fisheries (Barange et al, 2014;Lam et al, 2016), health and disease (Patz et al, 2005;Giorgi and Diffenbaugh, 2008;Ogden et al, 2014), climate and weather extremes (Déqué, 2007;Marengo et al, 2009;Jiang et al, 2012;Rummukainen, 2012), wildfires …”

“…They also concluded that the PRUDENCE results were confident because the models had a similar response to the given radiative forcing. Déqué et al (2007) showed that the signal from the PRU-DENCE ensemble is significant in terms of the minimum expected 2 m temperature and precipitation responses. Jacob et al (2007a) demonstrated that RCMs in PRUDENCE generally reproduce the large-scale circulation of the driving GCM.…”

Reply to the Comments by Referee #2

“…Furthermore, the SRES scenarios by themselves have often been adopted in most recent studies, even long after the release of the RCP scenarios, because the old scenarios were in accord with their objectives (e.g., Dunford et al, 2015;Jaczewski et al, 2015;Kiguchi et al, 2015;Kim et al, 2015;Casajus et al, 2016;Harrison et al, 2016;Mamoon et al, 2016;Stevanović et al, 2016;Tukimat and Alias, 2016;Zheng et al, 2016;Hassan et al, 2017;Park et al, 2017;da Silva et al, 2017). We employed the SRES marker scenarios because of their long-term consistency in assessing the impact of climate change on global and regional factors of socioeconomy and environment during the last decade -including air quality (Jacob and Winner, 2009;Carvalho et al, 2010), water quality and resources (Wilby et al, 2006;Shen et al, 2008Shen et al, , 2014Luo et al, 2013), energy (Hoogwijk et al, 2005;van Vliet et al, 2012), agriculture and forestry (Lavalle et al, 2009;Calzadilla et al, 2013;Stevanović et al, 2016;Zubizarreta-Gerendiain et al, 2016), fisheries (Barange et al, 2014;Lam et al, 2016), health and disease (Patz et al, 2005;Giorgi and Diffenbaugh, 2008;Ogden et al, 2014), climate and weather extremes (Déqué, 2007;Marengo et al, 2009;Jiang et al, 2012;Rummukainen, 2012), wildfires (Liu et al, 20...…”

Impacts of climate change on infestations of Dubas bug (Ommatissus lybicus Bergevin) on date palms in Oman

“…The key component of the ecological niche modeling approaches is estimation or characterization of species’ distributions in ecological space, which can then be useful in understanding their potential distributions in geographic space ( Peterson, 2006 ). A greater capacity to model the impact of climate change on the distributions of species will be invaluable toward this end ( Da Silva et al, 2017 ; Dawson et al, 2011 ; Peterson et al, 2017 ; Ramirez-Cabral, Kumar & Shabani, 2017 ; Shabani, Kumar & Ahmadi, 2017 ; Soberon & Peterson, 2005 ).…”