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Location: Crop Production and Protection

Title: Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation

Author
item Young, Steve
item Campbell, Joshua
item Fulcher, Michael
item Grewell, Brenda

Submitted to: Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Publication Type: Review Article
Publication Acceptance Date: 10/28/2022
Publication Date: 3/13/2023
Citation: Young, S.L., Campbell, J.W., Fulcher, M.R., Grewell, B.J. 2023. Climate and pest interactions pose a cross-landscape management challenge to soil and water conservation. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation. 78(2):39A-44A. https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2023.1025A.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.2023.1025A

Interpretive Summary: Ecosystems are impacted by pests, which include weeds, insects, and plant pathogens. Complex interactions among multiple pests and the effects of climate change pose significant challenges to the management of productive ecosystems and the conservation of soil and water resources. Dynamic interactions between pests are occurring at landscape scales and across multiple systems, requiring new approaches to pest management that extend beyond specific environmental contexts. We consider the impacts of climate change on pest movement and adaptation, identify potential outcomes for the conservation of soil and water, and highlight research and management gaps in dynamic, cross-system, pest-climate interactions.

Technical Abstract: Ecosystems are impacted by pests, which include weeds, insects, and plant pathogens. Complex interactions among multiple pests and the effects of climate change pose significant challenges to the management of productive ecosystems and the conservation of soil and water resources. Dynamic interactions between pests are occurring at landscape scales and across multiple systems, requiring new approaches to pest management that extend beyond specific environmental contexts. We consider the impacts of climate change on pest movement and adaptation, identify potential outcomes for the conservation of soil and water, and highlight research and management gaps in dynamic, cross-system, pest-climate interactions.