Wyckhuys, K.A.G., Pozsgai, G., Finch, E.A., Seehausen, M.L., Zhang, W., & Gc, Y.D. 2026 Climate change can generate enemy-free space for crop-feeding herbivores. Global Change Biology 32: e70775

Keywords:

  • ant association
  • climate change
  • ecology
  • natural enemies

    • Notes: The authors use niche modeling for 14 globally-important herbivores (or pests), including 3 pseudococcids, to forecast how richness of the associated biological control agents of each pest may alter under a climate change-driven range expansion. Results show that 57%–100% of pests are bound to lose parasitoid and predator associates. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.70775