Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Climate warming promotes pesticide resistance through expanding overwintering range of a global pest

  • Chun-Sen Ma,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Yu Peng,
  • Fei Zhao,
  • Xiang-Qian Chang,
  • Kun Xing,
  • Liang Zhu,
  • Gang Ma,
  • He-Ping Yang,
  • Volker H. W. Rudolf

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25505-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Climate-driven range shifts may affect pesticide resistance. Here, the authors analyse experimentally parameterised and field-tested models to show that a cosmopolitan insect pest, the diamondback moth, is acquiring resistance against local pesticides through expanding overwintering range.