1. Climate Warming and Past and Present Distribution of the Processionary Moths (Thaumetopoea spp.) in Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa
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Georgi Nikolov Georgiev, Laura Berardi, Ljubodrag Mihajlović, Rodolfo Hernández, Andrea Basso, Zvi Mendel, Cynthia Nussbaumer, M'hamed El Mokhefi, Milka Glavendekić, Mohamed Lahbib Ben Jamaa, Moulay Ahmed El Alaoui El Fels, Alain Roques, Jean Poirot, Gahdab Chakali, Lars Henke, Daniel Sauvard, Franz Meier, Dimitrios N. Avtzis, Eiko Wagenhoff, Irena Papazova, Mauro Simonato, Mirza Dautbašić, Mathieu Laparie, Georgi Tsankov, Jérôme Rousselet, Annie Yart, Paula Halbig, Juan Pino, Sterja Nasceski, Jacques Garcia, Mohamed Zamoum, Saïd El Mercht, Wahiba Berretima, Noureddine Rahim, Mustafa Avci, Regino Zamora, Beat Forster, Horst Delb, Manuela Branco, Andrea Battisti, Axel Schopf, Kahraman İpekdal, Maja Jurc, Christelle Robinet, Gerardo Sańchez Peña, Helena Santos, Plamen Mirchev, Stig Larsson, Alex Protasov, Eduardo P. Mateus, Dinka Matošević, Ejup Çota, Jan Podlesnik, José A. Hódar, Atia Bensidi, Dietrich Klimetzek, Maria Rosa Paiva, Francis Goussard, Nicolas Meurisse, and Kırşehir Ahi Evran Üniversitesi
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0106 biological sciences ,Mediterranean climate ,Range (biology) ,business.industry ,Ecology ,Global warming ,Distribution (economics) ,North africa ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,010602 entomology ,Geography ,13. Climate action ,Western europe ,business ,Pine processionary moth - Abstract
Pine processionary moth, Thaumetopea pityocampa, is a model insect indicator of global warming, the northwards and upwards range expansion of this Mediterranean species being directly associated with the recent warming up. The knowledge about the drivers of moth expansion is synthesized. A first standardized mapping of the northern expansion edge, from Western Europe to Turkey, is presented, then detailed for 20 countries of Europe, Asia Minor and North Africa, including future trends. Additional data about the responses of the other Thaumetopoea species are given. Finally, the chapter points out the importance of the man-mediated introductions in the expansion process. © Éditions Quæ, 2015.
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- 2014
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