scholarly journals Potential global distribution of Aleurocanthus woglumi considering climate change and irrigation

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261626
Author(s):  
Antigoni Akrivou ◽  
Iro Georgopoulou ◽  
Dimitrios P. Papachristos ◽  
Panagiotis G. Milonas ◽  
Darren J. Kriticos
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Potential Distribution ◽  
Climate Scenario ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Potential Range ◽  
Area At Risk ◽  
Aleurocanthus Woglumi ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

Citrus blackfly, Aleurocanthus woglumi Ashby (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae), is an important agricultural quarantine pest, causing substantial economic losses to citrus and many other cultivated crops. Aleurocanthus woglumi is found in tropical and subtropical regions but is presently unknown in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin. We used CLIMEX to model the potential distribution of A. woglumi under an historical climate scenario (centred on 1995), including a spatially explicit irrigation scenario. We found that A. woglumi could potentially invade the Mediterranean Basin, and south-east Asia, including Australia. There is potential for it to invade most of sub-Saharan Africa. Irrigation is revealed as an important habitat factor affecting the potential distribution of A. woglumi, increasing its potential range by 53% in Asia. Under a future climate scenario for 2050, its potential distribution increased across all continents except Africa, where potential range expansion due to relaxation of cold stresses was limited, and was offset by range decrease due to lethal heat or dry stress. As global climates warm, Europe is likely to face a substantial increase in the area at risk of establishment by A. woglumi (almost doubling under the 2050 irrigation scenario). The biosecurity threat from A. woglumi is significant in current citrus production areas and poses a challenge to biosecurity managers and risk analysts.

Shedding light on the effects of climate change on the potential distribution of Xylella fastidiosa in the Mediterranean basin

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1759-1768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luciano Bosso ◽  
Mirko Di Febbraro ◽  
Gennaro Cristinzio ◽  
Astolfo Zoina ◽  
Danilo Russo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Potential Distribution ◽  
Xylella Fastidiosa ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

scholarly journals Almond Anthracnose: Current Knowledge and Future Perspectives

Plants ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 945
Author(s):  
Ana López-Moral ◽  
Carlos Agustí-Brisach ◽  
María Lovera ◽  
Octavio Arquero ◽  
Antonio Trapero
Keyword(s):  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Emerging Disease ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Maturity Stages ◽  
Colletotrichum Spp ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

Almond anthracnose caused by Colletotrichum spp. has been described as one of the most important diseases of this nut crop in the main almond-growing regions worldwide, including California, Australia and Spain. Currently, almond anthracnose is considered a re-emerging disease in the countries across the Mediterranean Basin due to the shift of plantations from the original crop areas to others with climatic, edaphic and orographic conditions favoring crop growing and yield. The pathogen mainly affects fruit at the youngest maturity stages, causing depressed, round and orange or brown lesions with abundant gum. The affected fruits can fall prematurely and lead to the drying of branches, causing significant economic losses in years of epidemics. This review aims to compile the current knowledge on the etiology, epidemiology and management of this disease.

Piracy and Law in the Ottoman Mediterranean

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua M. White
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
Legal Space ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
First Time ◽  
Eastern Half ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin

This book offers a comprehensive examination of the shape and impact of piracy in the eastern half of the Mediterranean and the Ottoman Empire’s administrative, legal, and diplomatic response. In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, piracy had a tremendous effect on the formation of international law, the conduct of diplomacy, the articulation of Ottoman imperial and Islamic law, and their application in Ottoman courts. Piracy and Law draws on research in archives and libraries in Istanbul, Venice, Crete, London, and Paris to bring the Ottoman state and Ottoman victims into the story for the first time. It explains why piracy exploded after the 1570s and why the Ottoman state was largely unable to marshal an effective military solution even as it responded dynamically in the spheres of law and diplomacy. By focusing on the Ottoman victims, jurists, and officials who had to contend most with the consequences of piracy, Piracy and Law reveals a broader range of piratical practitioners than the Muslim and Catholic corsairs who have typically been the focus of study and considers their consequences for the Ottoman state and those who traveled through Ottoman waters. This book argues that what made the eastern half of the Mediterranean basin the Ottoman Mediterranean, more than sovereignty or naval supremacy—which was ephemeral—was that it was a legal space. The challenge of piracy helped to define its contours.

Unfinished and Less Authored Texts

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew D. C. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Written Texts ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
The Mediterranean Basin ◽  
Jewish Writers

The concept of textual unfinishedness played a role in a wide variety of cultures and contexts across the Mediterranean basin in antiquity and late antiquity. Chapter 2 documents examples of Greek, Roman, and Jewish writers reflecting explicitly in their own words about unfinished texts. Many writers claimed to have written unfinished texts on purpose for specific cultural reasons, while others claimed to have written texts that slipped out of their hands somehow with their permission.

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