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  1. Behavioural plasticity of a pest species may aggravate global wheat yield loss under climate change

    Article • Nature Communications, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  2. Temperature variability homogenized thermal responses in an ectotherm community along a European longitudinal gradient

    Article • Ecography, December 2025, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  3. Temperature variability homogenized thermal responses in an herbivore community along a European longitudinal gradient

    Article • May 2025, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  4. Crop pest responses to global changes in climate and land management

    Article • Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  5. Metabolic responses provide insight into interspecific variation in heat tolerance of three co-existing pest aphid species

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, March 2025, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  6. Responses of a widespread pest insect to extreme high temperatures are stage‐dependent and divergent among seasonal cohorts

    Article • Functional Ecology, November 2024, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  7. Long‐term effects of elevated CO2 on the nutrition provided to parasitoids by their herbivorous hosts

    Article • Physiological Entomology, April 2024, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  8. Correction: Wang et al. Current and Potential Future Global Distribution of the Raisin Moth Cadra figulilella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) under Two Different Climate Change Scenarios. Biology 2023, 12, 435

    Article • Biology, July 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  9. Parasitoid ecology along geographic gradients: lessons for climate change studies

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, June 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  10. The interspecific variations in molecular responses to various doses of heat and cold stress: The case of cereal aphids

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, June 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  11. Identification of Grape Diseases Based on Improved YOLOXS

    Article • Applied Sciences, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  12. Heat-avoidance behavior associates with thermal sensitivity rather than tolerance in aphid assemblages

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, May 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  13. Interspecific differences in thermal tolerance landscape explain aphid community abundance under climate change

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, May 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  14. Current and Potential Future Global Distribution of the Raisin Moth Cadra figulilella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) under Two Different Climate Change Scenarios

    Article • Biology, March 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  15. Climate change, host plant availability, and irrigation shape future region‐specific distributions of the Sitobion grain aphid complex

    Article • Pest Management Science, March 2023, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  16. Scientists' warning on climate change and insects

    Article • Ecological Monographs, November 2022, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  17. Climate warming exacerbates plant disease through enhancing commensal interaction of co-infested insect vectors

    Article • Journal of Pest Science, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  18. Challenge generality of prediction based on Jensen’s inequality: Moderate and large temperature fluctuations can lead to opposite performance deviation at high mean temperature

    Article • Entomologia Generalis, October 2022, Schweizerbart

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  19. Can laboratory-reared aphid populations reflect the thermal performance of field populations in studies on pest science and climate change biology?

    Article • Journal of Pest Science, October 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  20. A conservative oviposition preference in spider mites for complex habitats as a preventive strategy for reducing predation risk

    Article • Entomologia Generalis, May 2022, Schweizerbart

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  21. Geographic dispersion of invasive crop pests: the role of basal, plastic climate stress tolerance and other complementary traits in the tropics

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, April 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  22. Bacterial Symbionts Confer Thermal Tolerance to Cereal Aphids Rhopalosiphum padi and Sitobion avenae

    Article • Insects, February 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  23. Potential distribution of invasive crop pests under climate change: incorporating mitigation responses of insects into prediction models

    Article • Current Opinion in Insect Science, February 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  24. IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON CROP PRODUCTION, PESTS AND PATHOGENS OF WHEAT AND RICE

    Article • Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, January 2022, Editorial Department of Engineering Sciences

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  25. Climate warming promotes pesticide resistance through expanding overwintering range of a global pest

    Article • Nature Communications, September 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  26. Night warming alters mean warming effects on predator–prey interactions by modifying predator demographics and interaction strengths

    Article • Functional Ecology, June 2021, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  27. Extreme climate shifts pest dominance hierarchy through thermal evolution and transgenerational plasticity

    Article • Functional Ecology, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  28. Are extreme high temperatures at low or high latitudes more likely to inhibit the population growth of a globally distributed aphid?

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, May 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  29. Dynamics of heat shock protein responses to thermal stress changes after metamorphosis in a lepidopteran insect

    Article • Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology, April 2021, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  30. Survive a Warming Climate: Insect Responses to Extreme High Temperatures

    Article • Annual Review of Entomology, January 2021, Annual Reviews

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  31. Aged virgin adults respond to extreme heat events with phenotypic plasticity in an invasive species, Drosophila suzukii

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, February 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  32. NightWarming Affecting Interspecific Interactions: Implications for Biological Control

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  33. More stressful event does not always depress subsequent life performance

    Article • Journal of Integrative Agriculture, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  34. Wide diurnal temperature variation inhibits larval development and adult reproduction in the diamondback moth

    Article • Journal of Thermal Biology, August 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  35. Adaptation of Drosophila species to climate change — A literature review since 2003

    Article • Journal of Integrative Agriculture, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  36. Insights into the Maternal Ancestry of Côte d’Ivoire Honeybees Using the Intergenic Region COI-COII

    Article • Insects, March 2019, MDPI AG

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  37. The importance of timing of heat events for predicting the dynamics of aphid pest populations

    Article • Pest Management Science, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  38. Independent and combined effects of daytime heat stress and nighttime recovery determine thermal performance

    Article • Biology Open, January 2019, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  39. Sporadic short temperature events cannot be neglected in predicting impacts of climate change on small insects

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  40. Behavioural thermoregulation alters microhabitat utilization and demographic rates in ectothermic invertebrates

    Article • Animal Behaviour, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  41. Behavioral thermoregulation in a small herbivore avoids direct UVB damage

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  42. Pathogenicity of indigenous soil isolate of Bacillus thuringiensis to Helicoverpa armigera Hübner 1809 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)

    Article • Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest Control, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  43. Resolving biological impacts of multiple heat waves: interaction of hot and recovery days

    Article • Oikos, January 2018, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  44. Volatiles from <i>Prunus persica</i> Flowers and Their Correlation with Flower-Visiting Insect Community in Wanbailin Ecological Garden, China

    Article • Advances in Entomology, January 2018, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  45. Are adult life history traits in oriental fruit moth affected by a mild pupal heat stress?

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  46. Life stages of an aphid living under similar thermal conditions differ in thermal performance

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  47. Soil moisture conditions determine phenology and success of larval escape in the peach fruit moth, Carposina sasakii (Lepidoptera, Carposinidae): Implications for predicting drought effects on a diapausing insect

    Article • Applied Soil Ecology, February 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  48. Warming Accelerates Carbohydrate Consumption in the Diapausing Overwintering Peach Fruit MothCarposina sasakii(Lepidoptera: Carposinidae)

    Article • Environmental Entomology, July 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  49. Response of heat shock protein genes of the oriental fruit moth under diapause and thermal stress reveals multiple patterns dependent on the nature of stress exposure

    Article • Cell Stress and Chaperones, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  50. Effect of host plants on the development, survivorship and reproduction ofGrapholita molesta(Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) under laboratory conditions

    Article • Austral Entomology, April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  51. Emergence of the overwintering generation of peach fruit moth (Carposina sasakii) depends on diapause and spring soil temperatures

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  52. An improved gene expression programming algorithm based on hybrid strategy

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  53. Molecular characterization of a ryanodine receptor gene from Spodoptera exigua and its upregulation by chlorantraniliprole

    Article • Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  54. Stage-specific heat effects: timing and duration of heat waves alter demographic rates of a global insect pest

    Article • Oecologia, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  55. A tool for developing an automatic insect identification system based on wing outlines

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  56. Stress Responses of Small Heat Shock Protein Genes in Lepidoptera Point to Limited Conservation of Function across Phylogeny

    Article • PLOS One, July 2015, PLOS

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  57. Effects of Large Temperature Fluctuations on Hatching and Subsequent Development of the Diamondback Moth (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae)

    Article • Florida Entomologist, June 2015, Florida Entomological Society

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  58. Impact of hot events at different developmental stages of a moth: the closer to adult stage, the less reproductive output

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  59. Daily temperature extremes play an important role in predicting thermal effects

    Article • Journal of Experimental Biology, January 2015, The Company of Biologists

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  60. A Single Hot Event Stimulates Adult Performance but Reduces Egg Survival in the Oriental Fruit Moth, Grapholitha molesta

    Article • PLOS One, December 2014, PLOS

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  61. Extreme temperature events alter demographic rates, relative fitness, and community structure

    Article • Global Change Biology, August 2014, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  62. The complete mitochondrial genome ofSitobion avenae(Hemiptera: Aphididae)

    Article • Mitochondrial DNA, June 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  63. Does Thermal Variability Experienced at the Egg Stage Influence Life History Traits across Life Cycle Stages in a Small Invertebrate?

    Article • PLOS One, June 2014, PLOS

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  64. Night warming on hot days produces novel impacts on development, survival and reproduction in a small arthropod

    Article • Journal of Animal Ecology, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  65. Co-evolutionary Gene Expression Programming and Its Application in Wheat Aphid Population Forecast Modelling

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  66. Effect of Colours on Oviposition Preference of the Oriental Fruit Moth,Grapholita molestaBusck

    Article • Acta Ecologica Sinica, January 2014, Acta Ecologica Sinica

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  67. A Single Hot Event That Does Not Affect Survival but Decreases Reproduction in the Diamondback Moth, Plutella xylostella

    Article • PLOS One, October 2013, PLOS

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  68. Age-Stage Two-Sex Life Tables of <I>Panonychus ulmi</I> (Acari: Tetranychidae), on Different Apple Varieties

    Article • Journal of Economic Entomology, October 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  69. Climate warming may increase aphids’ dropping probabilities in response to high temperatures

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, November 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  70. Differences in the nocturnal flight activity of insect pests and beneficial predatory insects recorded by light traps: Possible use of a beneficial-friendly trapping strategy for controlling insect pests

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, July 2012, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  71. A Novel Differential Evolution Algorithm with Multi-Strategy Differential Mutation Mechanism

    Article • Advanced Science Letters, March 2012, American Scientific Publishers

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  72. Effect of acclimation on heat-escape temperatures of two aphid species: Implications for estimating behavioral response of insects to climate warming

    Article • Journal of Insect Physiology, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  73. Effects of constant temperature, exposure period, and age on diapause induction in Trichogramma dendrolimi

    Article • Biological Control, March 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  74. The effect of heat stress on the survival of the rose grain aphid, Metopolophium dirhodum (Hemiptera: Aphididae)

    Article • European Journal of Entomology, June 2004, Biology Centre, AS CR

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  75. Effects of pattern and timing of high temperature exposure on reproduction of the rose grain aphid, Metopolophium dirhodum

    Article • Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, January 2004, Wiley

    Professor Chunsen Ma

  76. Article • PLOS

    Professor Chunsen Ma