Impact of Climate Change on Insects, Pest, Diseases and Animal Biodiversity

Abstract

Climate change is the significant variation that has occurred in the global temperature, precipitation, wind patterns, humidity and other parameters of the earth’s atmosphere over several decades. Human activities have contributed to a severe change in the global climate, resulting to decline in the earth biodiversity. Thus, climate change has directly or indirectly affected diverse life on the earth surface. Greatly, climate change affects man, vegetation and crops, fishes, pests and diseases, insects, animals, soil and the general ecosystems of the human environment. It is evident that some species are dying while others are adapting, the foods we eat are threatened and ecosystem in some regions is undergoing serious extinction. However, giving solutions to the menace of climate change calls for multidisciplinary actions by predicting and sounding early warnings to global climate change impacts in order to gain support from the general public.