D.B. Strongman

TL;DR: It is shown that a complex web of interactions between insect herbivores and their natural enemies displays significant architectural flexibility over a large fluctuation in the natural abundance of the major herbivore, the spruce budworm, and it is found that this food-web flexibility tends to be greater in heterogeneous than in homogeneous forest plots.

TL;DR: Material extracted from hyphae of Fusarium avenaceum, isolated from foliage of balsam fir, was toxic to spruce budworm larvae when incorporated into insect diet, and the major insecticidal component was identified by chemical and spectroscopic methods as enniatin complex.

TL;DR: Thirty-two trichomycete species were recovered, including 7 new species: Legeriomyces algonquinensis, Legeriosimilis leptocerci, Legersia whitneyi, and Paramoebidium umbonatum are described from mayfly nymphs, and seven species are documented for the first time in Canada.

TL;DR: Twenty species of trichomycetes were collected from insect hosts at six sites in Prince Edward Island, situated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence about 14 km off the east coast of New Brunswick.

TL;DR: Two new taxa of gut fungi within order Harpellales (Kickxellomycotina) are described from a stream in the Tianshan Mountains in northwestern China and the geographic range of Smittium rupestre is extended, previously known only from Australia.