Insect pests and climate change
Climate change alters ecosystems and favors the expansion and impact of insect pests that affect public health, biodiversity, and agriculture.
The Ring Project on Insect Pests and Climate Change (PIC²) emerges as a scientific and interdisciplinary proposal whose objective is to identify how insect pests respond to climate change and how these changes affect natural and productive systems.
Our goals
1. Investigate how processes directed by the genome and microorganisms associated with insects facilitate the redistribution and adaptation of insect pests.
2. Investigate the synergistic effects of temperature and chronic exposure to insecticides on the functional traits of insect pests
3. Evaluate the adoption of insect pest management strategies in a climate change context
Host institutions
