Climate risk · Rationale

Pest phenology disruption

Form of pest pressure characterised by climate-driven changes in the timing of pest or vector life-cycle events, such as emergence and reproduction, that alter their synchrony with hosts and crop calendars.

Definition source: IPCC AR6 WGII Ch.2: Phenology shifts; AGROVOC: phenology

Synonyms

pest phenology shift

Broader

Pest pressure

Narrower

none

Counts as adaptation

Always (adaptation-specific).

Provenance

Domain expert

Identifier

CRK_139 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/CRK_139
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/CRK_139)