This blog post is provided by Sara Emery and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Cold winters drive consistent and spatially synchronous 8-year population cycles of cabbage stem flea beetle”, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their paper they explore regular cycles of the cabbage stem flea beetle in Sweden, investigating what impacts these cycles including climatic conditions in the winter. For … Continue reading Cold winters drive 8-year population cycles for a beetle pest in agriculture