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SUBMITTER: Lesk C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7398402 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lesk Corey C Coffel Ethan E D'Amato Anthony W AW Dodds Kevin K Horton Radley R
Nature climate change 20170828
In coming decades, warmer winters are likely to ease range constraints on many cold-limited forest insects<sup>1-5</sup>. Recent unprecedented expansion of the southern pine beetle (SPB, <i>Dendroctonus frontalis</i>) into New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut in concert with warming annual temperature minima highlights the risk that this insect pest poses to the pine forests of the northern United States and Canada under continued climate change<sup>6</sup>. Here we present projections of north ...[more]