Release Date: 2024-05-31

Effects of Global Warming on Insects: Current Approaches

Deniz Sirin (Author), Mehmet Sait Taylan (Author)

Release Date: 2024-05-31

This chapter discusses the extent in which insects are affected by global warming, but since it is hardly possible to fully disclose and examine the effects of global warming on insects, the most populous group in the world, in just one chapter or even a book, we have assumed here the task to provide a [...]

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    Published inEcological Dynamics in the Face of Climate Change
    First Page189
    Last Page203
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.69860/nobel.9786053359258.11
    Page Count15
    Copyright HolderNobel Tıp Kitabevleri
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    This chapter discusses the extent in which insects are affected by global warming, but since it is hardly possible to fully disclose and examine the effects of global warming on insects, the most populous group in the world, in just one chapter or even a book, we have assumed here the task to provide a general overview of insects in relation to some current studies and approaches to insects in the context of global warming and climate change. We consider the level of these studies on an order basis, what are the general concerns and objects of study covered by these studies on global warming, and especially what are the responses of insects to global warming (particularly behavioural-migration one). Finally, we also envisage the scenarios that may occur under the effects of global warming.

    Deniz Sirin (Author)
    Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5475-173X
    3Deniz Şirin is a biologist fromTekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Turkey. In 2009 he obtained his PhD in Biology from Akdeniz University, Biology Department focusing on Chorthippus bigittulus (Orthoptera) species group systematics and bioacoustics. Currently, he is a Prof (Full) Dr. in the Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Science and Art, Biology department. His research interests include insect systematics, ecology and evolution.

    Mehmet Sait Taylan (Author)
    Hakkari University
    https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2084-920X
    3Mehmet Sait Taylan is a biologist from Hakkari University, Turkey. In 2011 he obtained his PhD in Biology from Akdeniz University, Biology Department focusing on Anatolian cave crickets systematics, biogeography and molecular phylogeny. Currently, he is a Prof (Full) Dr. in the Hakkari University, Institute of Postgraduate Education,, Biology department. His research interests include biospeleology, bioacoustcis, insect systematics and evolution.

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