Sentences with phrase «by insect outbreaks»

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In a global level, those centres are coordinated by the FAO in Rome, which has an information service in charge of monitoring the situation throughout the insect's distribution area and forecasting the risks of outbreaks and invasions.

Built by Precision Hawk of Indianapolis, the craft's thermal camera is meant to find outbreaks of insects and crop disease, which show up as hotspots when stressed plants lose their ability to regulate heat.

Ultimately, in forests not otherwise limited by energy or nutrients variability in moisture availability with natural and climate oscillations may drive establishment success between years (League and Veblen 2006), with indirect disturbance effects (e.g., fires, landslides, insect outbreaks, and pathogen attacks) greatly affecting long - term recruitment success (Clark et al. 2016).

«With diseases spread by biting insects, such as Zika, standard quarantine measures are useless, so stopping an outbreak in its tracks requires a vaccine - led approach, as we are currently seeing carried out for Zika's relative, yellow fever, in Angola and neighbouring countries.

That means avoiding mosquito bites by covering up and using DEET - containing insect repellent, and avoiding those places experiencing outbreaks if you are pregnant or might become pregnant.»

Insect outbreaks such as this represent an important mechanism by which climate change may undermine the ability of northern forests to take up and store atmospheric carbon, and such impacts should be accounted for in large - scale modelling analyses.

Although global forests currently capture and store more carbon each year than they emit, 46 the ability of forests to act as large, global carbon absorbers («sinks») may be reduced by projected increased disturbances from insect outbreaks, 47 forest fire, 48 and drought, 49 leading to increases in tree mortality and carbon emissions.

Or will warming reduce the forests — and perhaps also tundra vegetation — by causing more wildfires and insect outbreaks?