The effectiveness of vegetation management practices for prevention and control of bark beetle infestations in coniferous forests of the western and southern United …

CJ Fettig, KD Klepzig, RF Billings, AS Munson… - Forest ecology and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Insects are major components of forest ecosystems, representing most of the biological
diversity and affecting virtually all processes and uses. In the USA, bark beetles (Coleoptera …

Trends in bark beetle impacts in North America during a period (2000–2020) of rapid environmental change

CJ Fettig, C Asaro, JT Nowak, KJ Dodds… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Of the more than five hundred and fifty species of North American bark beetles (Coleoptera:
Curculionidae, Scolytinae), approximately twenty species occasionally cause large amounts …

12. A test of the biodiversity-stability theory: meta-analysis of tree species diversity effects on insect pest infestations and re-examination of responsible factors

H Jactel, E Brockerhoff, P Duelli - Ecological studies, 2005 - Springer
The notion that biodiversity leads to stability of ecosystems is the subject of an ongoing
debate in ecology (McCann 2000). An early proponent of this theory (Elton 1958) was partly …

Interactions among conifer terpenoids and bark beetles across multiple levels of scale: an attempt to understand links between population patterns and physiological …

KF Wallin - Chemical Ecology and Phytochemistry of Forest …, 2005 - books.google.com
A major challenge confronting ecologists involves scaling up and down across various
levels of biological organization. 12 The ability to conduct such scaling is important, because …

Factors affecting the spatio-temporal dispersion of Ips typographus (L.) in Bavarian Forest National Park: A long-term quantitative landscape-level analysis

A Lausch, L Fahse, M Heurich - Forest Ecology and management, 2011 - Elsevier
The relationship between abiotic and biotic factors and the spread of the European spruce
bark beetle, Ips typographus (L.), was investigated at a landscape level over a model period …

Mapping canopy defoliation by herbivorous insects at the individual tree level using bi-temporal airborne imaging spectroscopy and LiDAR measurements

R Meng, PE Dennison, F Zhao, I Shendryk… - Remote Sensing of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Defoliation by herbivorous insects is a widespread forest disturbance driver, affecting global
forest health and ecosystem dynamics. Compared with time-and labor-intensive field …

[HTML][HTML] Detection of pine shoot beetle (PSB) stress on pine forests at individual tree level using UAV-based hyperspectral imagery and lidar

Q Lin, H Huang, J Wang, K Huang, Y Liu - Remote Sensing, 2019 - mdpi.com
In recent years, the outbreak of the pine shoot beetle (PSB), Tomicus spp., has caused
serious shoots damage and the death of millions of trees in Yunnan pine forests in …

Spatio-temporal infestation patterns of Ips typographus (L.) in the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany

A Lausch, M Heurich, L Fahse - Ecological Indicators, 2013 - Elsevier
The Bavarian Forest National Park in Germany has experienced infestations of bark beetle
(Ips typographus L.) since the 1980s, resulting in considerable ecological loss due to the …

Density-dependent tree mortality in pinyon-juniper woodlands

DL Greenwood, PJ Weisberg - Forest Ecology and Management, 2008 - Elsevier
Pathogens and bark beetles are integral disturbance agents in many forest and woodland
ecosystems. Over the past decade, pinyon Ips (Ips confusus) has interacted with regional …

Responses of tree-killing bark beetles to a changing climate.

KF Raffa, BH Aukema, BJ Bentz… - Climate change and …, 2015 - cabidigitallibrary.org
Bark beetles cause widespread tree mortality, so understanding how climate change will
influence the distribution and magnitude of outbreaks by this group of herbivores is …