Effects of Climate Change on Insects

Anthropogenic climate change is likely to be the largest environmental challenge of this century, posing an existential threat to humans as well as most plants and animals. Insects are the largest and most diverse group of organisms on Earth and are involved in nutrient cycling, pollination, seed dispersal, and control populations of other organisms, besides being a major food source for other taxa and vectors of many human diseases. Therefore, synthesizing insect physiological, evolutionary and ecological responses in a single book is relevant for a potentially wide audience interested in different aspects of insect responses to climate change.

This book focuses not only on insects of economic or public health importance, but also on non-model organisms, which provide fundamental evidence on the threats posed to global insect populations. Insect responses to climate change are evaluated and organized at four main levels: individuals, populations, communities and ecosystems, providing the central structure of the book. This work will help to meet demand for knowledge from advanced students and researchers about a critical subject matter of growing importance.

Effects of Climate Change on Insects is an advanced textbook that will appeal to upper level undergraduate and postgraduate entomology students as well as researchers and conservationists seeking to understand different aspects of insect responses to anthropogenic climate change.

1. Anthropogenic Climate Change: Causes, Consequences, and a Call to Action and Research / Wesley Dáttilo & Daniel González-Tokman
2. Evidence From the Fossil Record on Insect Response to Climate Change / Ellen Currano
3. Studying Climate Change Effects in the Era of Omic Sciences / Zach Fuller & Maren Wellenreuther
4. Physiological Mechanisms of Heat Tolerance in Insects / Daniel González-Tokman & Sebastián Villada-Bedoya
5. Genetic and Plastic Responses of Insects to Climate Change / Patrick Rohner
6. Effects of Climate Change on Insect Phenology / Gang Ma, Chun-Sen Ma, Cécile Le Lann & Joan van Baaren
7. Sexual Selection in Insects in Times of Climate Change / Daniel González-Tokman & Sebastián Villada-Bedoya
8. Interspecific Hybridization in Insects in Times of Climate Change / Rosa Ana Sánchez-Guillén, Luis Rodrigo Arce-Valdés, Andrea Viviana Ballén-Guapacha, Jesús Ordaz-Morales & Miguel Stand-Pérez
9. Changes in Insect Population Dynamics Due to Climate Change / Carol Boggs
10. Evidence of Climate Change Effects on Insect Diversity: The Wind and the Pinwheel / Kleber Del-Claro, Vitor Miguel da Costa Silva, Eduardo S. Calixto, Elliot Centeno de Oliveira, Iasmim Pereira, Diego Anjos, Helena Maura Torezan-Silingardi & Renan Fernandes Moura
11. Effects of Climate Change on Insect Distributions and Invasions / Lucie Aulus-Giacosa, Olivia K. Bates, Aymeric Bonnamour, Jelena Bujan, Jérôme Gippet, Gyda Fenn-Moltu, Tristan Klaftenberger & Cleo Bertelsmeier
12. Insect Communities Adapting to Climate Change: Using Species' Trajectories Along Elevation Gradients in Tropical and Temperate Zones / Genoveva Rodríguez-Castañeda & Anouschka R. Hof
13. Impacts of Climate Change on Insect Pollinators and Consequences for their Ecological Function / Laura A. Burkle & Shalene Jha
14. Insect Vectors of Human Pathogens in a Warming World: Summarizing Responses and Consequences / Berenice González-Rete, Jesús Guillermo Jiménez-Cortés, Margarita Cabrera-Bravo, Paz María Salazar-Schettino, Any Laura Flores-Villegas, José Antonio de Fuentes-Vicente & Alex Córdoba-Aguilar
15. Climate Change Disrupts Insect Biotic Interactions: Cascading Effects Through the Web of Life / Pedro Luna & Wesley Dáttilo
16. Refugia From Climate Change, and Their Influence on the Diversity and Conservation of Insects / Guim Ursul, Mario Mingarro, Juan Pablo Cancela, Helena Romo & Robert J. Wilson
17. Improving our Understanding of Insect Responses to Climate Change: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives / Daniel González-Tokman, Ornela de Gasperin & Wesley Dáttilo