title: A call to insect scientists: challenges and opportunities of managing insect communities under climate change.
abstract: As climate change moves insect systems into uncharted territory, more knowledge about insect dynamics and the factors that drive them could enable us to better manage and conserve insect communities. Climate change may also require us to revisit insect management goals and strategies and lead to a new kind of scientific engagement in management decision-making. Here we make five key points about the role of insect science in aiding and crafting management decisions, and we illustrate those points with the monarch butterfly and the Karner blue butterfly, two species undergoing considerable change and facing new management dilemmas. Insect biology has a strong history of engagement in applied problems, and as the impacts of climate change increase, a reimagined ethic of entomology in service of broader society may emerge. We hope to motivate insect biologists to contribute time and effort toward solving the challenges of climate change.
authors.affiliation: Institute on the Environment and Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN 55108, United States. Electronic address: hellmann@umn.edu.
authors.forename: Jessica J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Hellmann
authors.affiliation: Great Lakes Science Center, US Geological Survey, Chesterton, IN 46304, United States.
authors.forename: Ralph
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Grundel
authors.affiliation: Michigan Department of Natural Resources, Lansing, MI 48909, United States; Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hoving
authors.affiliation: Natural Resource Stewardship and Science, US National Park Service, Fort Collins, CO 80525, United States.
authors.forename: Gregor W
authors.initials: GW
authors.lastname: Schuurman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D057231:Climate Change; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000639:trends; D003657:Decision Making; D017753:Ecosystem; D004772:Entomology / Q000639:trends; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*