Climate Change and Plant Biosecurity: Implications for Policy

Luck, Jo; Campbell, Ian; Magarey, Roger D.; Isard, Scott A.; Aurambout, Jean‐Philippe; Finlay, Kyla J.

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-7365-3_21

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“…Luck et al. (2014) reviewed the potential direct and indirect effects that climate change could have on plant biosecurity, through a range of changes, including phenology changes and inter‐species interactions. The authors highlighted that conventional PRAs tend to rely solely on historical data, including historical pest range information, interceptions and occurrence data, and past information on pest impacts.…”

Section: Climate Change Within Pramentioning

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Beyond the present: How climate change is relevant to pest risk analysis

Szyniszewska,

Akrivou,

Björklund

et al. 2024

EPPO Bulletin

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Climate change is widely recognized as a critical global challenge with far‐reaching consequences. It affects pest species by altering their population dynamics, actual and potential distribution areas, as well as interactions with their hosts and natural enemies. Climate change thus has potentially important implications for multiple areas of the pest risk analysis (PRA) process. The importance of including climate change in PRA may vary depending on the climatic context of the PRA area in relation to the speed of climate change. If climatic changes within the time horizon of interest are minimal, their potential impact on pest risk is reduced accordingly. For PRAs in a changing climate, we need to be concerned with how future climates could alter our assessment of the risks currently posed by each pest species. While climate can influence the distribution and abundance of pests and hosts alike, its significance will vary depending on the situation. The inclusion of climate change within a PRA also presents challenges. The dynamic nature of climate change, with its complex interactions and uncertainties, can make it difficult to predict and assess the future risks posed by pests accurately. Uncertainties related to future predictions may be much greater than the potential effects associated with climate change and species’ responses to it. This paper outlines examples of the effects of climate change on hosts and different groups of pests, including invertebrates, pathogens, weeds and vector species. The aim is to review the opportunities and challenges of incorporating climate change into PRA, offering insights for a variety of stakeholders including policymakers on this topic.

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Section: Climate Change Within Pramentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond the present: How climate change is relevant to pest risk analysis

Szyniszewska,

Akrivou,

Björklund

et al. 2024

EPPO Bulletin

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“…Data derived from future climate projections using ESMs improves understanding of how different RCPs may affect biosecurity risks and the subsequent biosecurity implications of and changes [63], e.g. area with a suitable climate for establishment of new or emerging pests, pathogens or diseases [64][65][66], waterborne pathogen concentrations [67], or human infectious disease risk and potential for adaptation [68].…”

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Use of meteorological data in biosecurity

Hemming

Macneill

2020

Emerging Topics in Life Sciences

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Pests, pathogens and diseases cause some of the most widespread and damaging impacts worldwide — threatening lives and leading to severe disruption to economic, environmental and social systems. The overarching goal of biosecurity is to protect the health and security of plants and animals (including humans) and the wider environment from these threats. As nearly all living organisms and biological systems are sensitive to weather and climate, meteorological, ‘met’, data are used extensively in biosecurity. Typical applications include, (i) bioclimatic modelling to understand and predict organism distributions and responses, (ii) risk assessment to estimate the probability of events and horizon scan for future potential risks, and (iii) early warning systems to support outbreak management. Given the vast array of available met data types and sources, selecting which data is most effective for each of these applications can be challenging. Here we provide an overview of the different types of met data available and highlight their use in a wide range of biosecurity studies and applications. We argue that there are many synergies between meteorology and biosecurity, and these provide opportunities for more widespread integration and collaboration across the disciplines. To help communicate typical uses of meteorological data in biosecurity to a wide audience we have designed the ‘Meteorology for biosecurity’ infographic.

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Overview on the review articles published during the past 30 years relating to the potential climate change effects on plant pathogens and crop disease risks

Juroszek¹,

Racca²,

Link³

et al. 2019

Plant Pathology

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From 1988 to July 2019 more than 100 review articles were published, including opinion papers and book chapters, that focused on potential climate change effects on plant pathogens and the future crop disease risks. Therefore, an overview of them is presented herein, particularly helpful for beginners and non‐experts in climate change biology research. Specifically, this overview contributes to a faster and more convenient identification of appropriate review articles, for example, related to a certain crop, pathogen, plant disease or country of interest. However, not all important crops, pathogens, diseases and countries are considered specifically and in‐depth in any of these review articles, suggesting that there are still research gaps prevalent, which are also highlighted herein. Nevertheless, the overview suggests that researchers are increasingly busy and successful in summarizing the fragmented information spread throughout the international literature. Consequently, they are providing ‘step‐by‐step’ a comprehensive, in‐depth, and continuously updated knowledge platform on potential climate change effects on plant pathogens and the respective crop disease risks in the future, although some aspects will, by nature, be repeated.

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Climate Change and Plant Biosecurity: Implications for Policy

Cited by 3 publications

References 118 publications

Beyond the present: How climate change is relevant to pest risk analysis

Beyond the present: How climate change is relevant to pest risk analysis

Use of meteorological data in biosecurity

Overview on the review articles published during the past 30 years relating to the potential climate change effects on plant pathogens and crop disease risks

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