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A model for predicting the phenology of Philaenus spumarius

Scientific Reports
AbstractThe design and implementation of Philaenus spumarius control strategies can take advantage of properly calibrated models describing and predicting the phenology of vector populations in agroecosystems. We developed a temperature-driven physiological-based model based on the system of Kolmogorov partial differential equations to predict the ...
Gilioli, Gianni, Simonetto, Anna, Weber, Igor Daniel, Gervasio, Paola, Sperandio, Giorgio, Bosco, Domenico, Bodino, Nicola, Dongiovanni, Crescenza, Di Carolo, Michele, Cavalieri, Vincenzo, Saponari, Maria, Boscia, Donato   +11 more
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Trade‐offs in avian parental care: a review of theory and meta‐analysis of brood size manipulations

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The selective forces shaping parental care have been studied for over 50 years. While theoretical and experimental work has yielded qualitative progress, the large body of empirical work testing predictions about parental investment based on life‐history trade‐offs has yet to be synthesized.
Rebekah A. McKinnon, Malgorzata Lagisz, Sheeraja Sridharan, David F. Westneat, Kimberley J. Mathot   +4 more
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Age-Dependent Developmental Response to Temperature: An Examination of the Rarely Tested Phenomenon in Two Species (Gypsy Moth (Lymantria dispar) and Winter Moth (Operophtera brumata))

Insects, 2018
The pervading paradigm in insect phenology models is that the response to a given temperature does not vary within a life stage. The developmental rate functions that have been developed for general use, or for specific insects, have for the most part ...
David R. Gray
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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Corrado Alessandrini, Karan Sethi, Emanuela Granata, Ekaterina Mogilnaia, Valeria Vitangeli, Giovanni Zanfei, Chiara Fedrigotti, Paolo Biella, Dino Scaravelli, Luigi Marchesi, Péter Batáry, Diego Rubolini, Paolo Pedrini, Mattia Brambilla   +13 more
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Increase in plant productivity in the tundra in Sweden is not related to increasing presence of warm‐adapted vascular plant species

Ecography, EarlyView.
Over the past decades, Arctic and alpine biomes have warmed faster than the global average. Substantial vegetation changes have been reported as a response to this warming, including increased productivity and the spread of warm‐adapted (thermophilic) species that are less resistant to grazing pressure into higher latitudes and altitudes.
Tim Horstkotte, Jakob Assmann, Henrik Hedenås, Signe Normand, Johan Olofsson   +4 more
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An improved crop calendar model for winter wheat incorporating vernalization and winter survival to project changes in phenology

Environmental Research: Food Systems
Crop phenology and associated crop calendars are necessary for designing breeding goals and for developing effective management practices. Winter wheat is a representative biennial, the cultivation schedule of which is constrained by winter climate ...
Keach Murakami, Toshichika Iizumi, Seiji Shimoda   +2 more
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Enhancing phenological model accuracy in subtropical forests using data assimilation coupled with deep learning

GIScience & Remote Sensing
Accurate monitoring of forest phenology and its temporal and spatial pattern has significant scientific relevance in revealing the carbon fixation mechanism.
Hongyu Zhu, Xuejian Li, Huaqiang Du, Li Chen, Fangjie Mao, Jie Xuan, Yinyin Zhao, Zihao Huang, Kehan Mo, Yuanqing Zheng   +9 more
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Developing Wheat for Improved Yield and Adaptation Under a Changing Climate: Optimization of a Few Key Genes

Engineering, 2018
Wheat grown under rain-fed conditions is often affected by drought worldwide. Future projections from a climate simulation model predict that the combined effects of increasing temperature and changing rainfall patterns will aggravate this drought ...
M.A.N. Nazim Ud Dowla, Ian Edwards, Graham O'Hara, Shahidul Islam, Wujun Ma   +4 more
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Climate‐driven resource availability drives medium‐ and broad‐scale temporal changes in owl–prey interactions over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem

Ecography, EarlyView.
Predator–prey interactions are vital to ecosystem functioning but may be disrupted by climate change. We investigated a food‐web network involving three owl species over 24 years in a semi‐arid ecosystem at Bosque Fray Jorge National Park, Chile.
Jazmin M. Quiroz‐Calizaya, Adriana Lozada, Douglas A. Kelt, Alejandra J. Troncoso, Peter L. Meserve, M. Andrea Previtali, W. Bryan Milstead, Julio R. Gutiérrez, Craig Weideman, Nicolas Gouin, Tyler R. Kartzinel, Karin Maldonado, Angéline Bertin   +12 more
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Assimilating Remote Sensing Phenological Information into the WOFOST Model for Rice Growth Simulation

Remote Sensing, 2019
Precise simulation of crop growth is crucial to yield estimation, agricultural field management, and climate change. Although assimilation of crop model and remote sensing data has been applied in crop growth simulation, few studies have considered ...
Gaoxiang Zhou, Xiangnan Liu, Ming Liu
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