Distribution of cryptic blue oat mite species in Australia: Current and future climate conditions

MP Hill; AA Hoffmann; SA Mccoll; PA Umina

Journal article

Distribution of cryptic blue oat mite species in Australia: Current and future climate conditions

MP Hill, AA Hoffmann, SA Mccoll, PA Umina

Agricultural and Forest Entomology | Published : 2012

DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2011.00544.x

Abstract

Invertebrate pests, such as blue oat mites Penthaleus spp., cause significant economic damage to agricultural crops in Australia. Climate is a major driver of invertebrate species distributions and climate change is expected to shift pest assemblages and pest prevalence across Australia. At this stage, little is known of how individual species will respond to climate change. We have mapped the current distribution for each of the three pest Penthaleus spp. in Australia and built ecological niche models for each species using the correlative modelling software, maxent. Predictor variables useful for describing the climate space of each species were determined and the models were projected int..

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Funding Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank Aston Arthur for collection of mites and Jane Elith who supplied the future climate data, under Australian Research Council grant LP0989537. We also thank Sarina Macfadyen and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript. This work was supported by the Grains Research Development Corporation through a Grains Research Scholarship (GRS154), an Undergraduate Honours Scholarship (UHS99) and a National Invertebrate Pest Initiative studentship at the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). A.A.H. was supported by a fellowship from the Australian Research Council.