| boom and bust: rapid feedback responses between insect outbreak dynamics and canopy leaf area impacted by rainfall and co2. | frequency and severity of insect outbreaks in forest ecosystems are predicted to increase with climate change. how this will impact canopy leaf area in future climates is rarely tested. here, we document function of insect outbreaks that fortuitously and rapidly occurred in an ecosystem under free-air co2 enrichment. over the first 2 years of co2 fumigation of a naturally established mature eucalyptus woodland, we continuously assessed population responses of three sap-feeding insect species of ... | 2016 | 27124557 |