Of the more than five hundred and fifty species of North American bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), approximately twenty species occasionally cause large amounts …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Defoliation by herbivorous insects is a widespread forest disturbance driver, affecting global forest health and ecosystem dynamics. Compared with time-and labor-intensive field …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …