Minireview on the influences of drought stress on herbivores and their natural enemies
Drought happened with the climate change characterized by global warming may greatly affect the agro — ecosystem, especially, the influences of host plants under drought stress on the insects and their natural enemies in direct and indirect ways were associated closely with the population dynamics of herbivores. Under drought stress, host plants could be modified in physical characters, nutritional status, and secondary chemical substances which may strongly affect the herbivore development and population dynamics by changes in habitats and availability of nutrition of herbivores. Phenological shift which desynchronized on the changes between host plants and herbivores induced by drought stress could result in a shortage in food supplies for herbivores. The population dynamics of herbivores also could be affected indirectly by the dynamics of natural enemies modified by drought stress.
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