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What will climate change mean for our risks of fruit flies of economic importance in New Zealand ?

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Why is it important?

If they were to establish, some fruit fly pest species will apparently do better, while other species will not fare as well. It is important to recognise that climate change will produce a range of impacts

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This paper suggests that the temperate species of fruit flies of economic importance will continue to theaten NZ for decades to come.

Professor David Maxwell Suckling
University of Auckland

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This page is a summary of: Advance, retreat, resettle? Climate change could produce a zero-sum game for invasive species, Austral Entomology, September 2015, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/aen.12162.
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