Thousand-year-long Chinese time series reveals climatic forcing of decadal locust dynamics
Thousand-year-long Chinese time series reveals climatic forcing of decadal locust dynamics
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United States: National Academy of Sciences
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For >1,000 years, Chinese officials have recorded the annual abundance of the oriental migratory locust Locusta migratoria manilensis, with the ultimate aim of predicting locust outbreaks. Linking these records with temperature and precipitation reconstructions for the period 957-1956, we show that decadal mean locust abundance is highest during co...
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Thousand-year-long Chinese time series reveals climatic forcing of decadal locust dynamics
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_201393463
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_201393463
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0027-8424
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1091-6490
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10.1073/pnas.0706813104
