Je. Miles et al., EFFECTS OF TEMPERATURE ELEVATION ON THE POPULATION-DYNAMICS OF THE UPLAND HEATHER PSYLLID STROPHINGIA-ERICAE (CURTIS) (HOMOPTERA, PSYLLOIDEA), Global change biology, 3(3), 1997, pp. 291-297
1 Cloches permeable to gas and water were used to simulate the effect
of climate warming on upland populations of the heather psyllid Stroph
ingia ericae at Moor House National Nature Reserve in the North Pennin
es, UK. 2 The cloches produced an average warming of about 1 degrees C
in the heather canopy over a period of one year. 3 The density of S.
ericae increased markedly in cloches within a few months of erection.
4 Species composition and numbers of potential predators were similar
inside cloches and in control plots. 5 In the two year life-cycle of S
. ericae, the warming effect advanced the phenology from the second to
third instar in the first winter, but in the second winter, fifth ins
tar nymphs did not moult prematurely to adult. 6 The density of S. eri
cae was higher on Calluna vulgaris at its boundary with Juncus squarro
sus than in the pure C. vulgaris sward (in both cloched and control pl
ots).