Behavioural plasticity of a pest species may aggravate global wheat yield loss under climate change
Gang Ma, Sylvain Pincebourde, Xue Bai, Yu Peng, Xue-Jing Wang, He-Ping Yang, Liang Zhu, Wei Zhang, Chun-Sen Ma · 2025
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Ma and eight colleagues show a wheat pest may worsen climate driven crop losses in twenty twenty-five. Heat waves are expected to thin most insect populations. Aphids, though, can dodge heat by shifting within tiny habitats on the plant. That behaviour is often ignored in crop loss forecasts.
In experiments, sheltering buffered aphids from simulated extreme heat. Populations then grew faster than expected. Models suggest this buffering added about eight point seven million tons of wheat loss per year globally over past decades. That is roughly one point two percent of world production without pesticides. The aggravated loss may grow faster than production itself. Most wheat growing countries face rising losses, poorest ones hardest.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Gang Ma, Sylvain Pincebourde, Xue Bai, Yu Peng, Xue-Jing Wang, He-Ping Yang, Liang Zhu, Wei Zhang, Chun-Sen Ma |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 62 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |