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Mountain pine beetle
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The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) is a member of a group of insects known as bark beetles, whose entire life cycle is spent beneath the bark of host trees.Abstract:
The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) is a member of a group of insects known as bark beetles. Its entire life cycle is spent beneath the bark of host trees, except when adults emerge from brood trees and fly in search of new host trees.read more
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Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada
Jeffrey A. Hicke,Craig D. Allen,Ankur R. Desai,Michael Dietze,Ronald J. Hall,Edward H. Hogg,Daniel M. Kashian,David J. P. Moore,Kenneth F. Raffa,Rona N. Sturrock,James E. Vogelmann +10 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed and synthesized published studies of the effects of biotic disturbances on forest C cycling in the United States and Canada and concluded that such disturbances can have major impacts on forest carbon stocks and fluxes and can be large enough to affect regional carbon cycle.
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Bark beetles, fuels, fires and implications for forest management in the Intermountain West
TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on various fuels characteristics over the course of a bark beetle rotation was evaluated in three bark beetle affected Intermountain conifer forests and compared these data to existing research on bark beetle/ fuels/fire interactions within the context of the disturbance regime.
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Efficacy of tree defense physiology varies with bark beetle population density: a basis for positive feedback in eruptive species
Celia K. Boone,Celia K. Boone,Celia K. Boone,Brian H. Aukema,Brian H. Aukema,Brian H. Aukema,Joerg Bohlmann,Allan L. Carroll,Allan L. Carroll,Kenneth F. Raffa +9 more
TL;DR: Host defenses were major constraints when mountain pine beetle populations were low, but inconsequential after stand-level densities surpassed a critical threshold, while beetles exploited trees weakened by lower-stem insects when populations were too low for cooperative attack.
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Cascading impacts of bark beetle‐caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes
Steven L. Edburg,Jeffrey A. Hicke,Paul D. Brooks,Elise Pendall,Brent E. Ewers,Urszula Norton,David Gochis,Ethan Gutmann,Arjan J. H. Meddens +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework of the impacts on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes following a mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreak in lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Douglas var latifolia) forests was developed.
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Friends or foes? Emerging insights from fungal interactions with plants
Susanne Zeilinger,Vijai Kumar Gupta,Tanya E. S. Dahms,Roberto Nascimento Silva,Harikesh Bahadur Singh,Ram Sanmukh Upadhyay,Eriston Vieira Gomes,Clement K. M. Tsui,Chandra Nayak +8 more
TL;DR: New innovative methods and the associated new insights into plant–fungal interactions are reviewed and the potential of fungi in preventing plant diseases, improving plant productivity and understanding ecosystem stability is understood.
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The mountain pine beetle: a synthesis of biology, management and impacts on lodgepole pine.
L. Safranyik,Bill Wilson +1 more
TL;DR: The abundance of mature age class timber in the inventory and a trend to warmer, drier summers and infrequent cold winter weather can combine to alter the balance between pest and host in forest ecosystems.
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Temperature-dependent development of the mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera : Scolytidae) and simulation of its phenology
TL;DR: Results from model simulations suggest that inherent temperature thresholds in each life-stage help to synchronize population dynamics with seasonal climatic changes and facilitate both research and management endeavors aimed at reducing losses in lodgepole pine stands caused by mountain pine beetle infestations.
Mountain pine beetle dynamics in lodgepole pine forests. Part II: Population dynamics.
Gene D. Amman,Walter E. Cole +1 more
Guidelines for reducing losses of lodgepole pine to the mountain pine beetle in unmanaged stands in the Rocky Mountains.
TL;DR: The objectives of these guidelines are to describe habits of the beetle in lodgepole pine forest and to present some alternatives that land managers could use to reduce beetlecaused losses.
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A comparison of mycangial and phoretic fungi of individual mountain pine beetles
TL;DR: This study compared the phoretic fungi of individual D. ponderosae with the fungi carried in their mycangia, and it appears that O. clavigerum is highly adapted for myCangial dissemination, while O. montium is adapted tophoretic as well as mycANGial dissemination.