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View SchemaInsects, Trees, and Climate: The Bioacoustic Ecology of Deforestation and Entomogenic Climate Change
| Authors | David Dunn, James P. Crutchfield |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-bio/0612019 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0612019 |
Abstract
Accumulating observational evidence suggests an intimate connection between rapidly expanding insect populations, deforestation, and global climate change. We review the evidence, emphasizing the vulnerability of key planetary carbon pools, especially the Earth's forests that link the micro-ecology of insect infestation to climate. We survey current research regimes and insect control strategies, concluding that at present they are insufficient to cope with the problem's present regional scale and its likely future global scale. We propose novel bioacoustic interactions between insects and trees as key drivers of infestation population dynamics and the resulting wide-scale deforestation. The bioacoustic mechanisms suggest new, nontoxic control interventions and detection strategies.
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