Crop-damaging insects, bacteria, fungus and viruses are moving poleward by nearly three kilometres each year, helped by global warming, a study has said.
作物害蟲、細菌、真菌與病毒在全球暖化助長下,每年朝南北兩極推進近3公里,一份研究指出。
A team at Britain’s University of Exeter trawled through two huge databases to chart the latitude and dates for the earliest record of 612 crop pests.