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Implementation of a marauding insect module (MIM, version 10) in the integrated bIosphere simulator (IBIS, version 26b4) dynamic vegetation–land surface model
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Landry, Jean-Sebastion, Price, David T., Ramankutty, Navin, Parrott, Lael, Matthews, H. Damon
Insects defoliate and kill plants in many ecosystems worldwide. The consequences of these natural processes on terrestrial ecology and nutrient cycling are well established, and their potential climatic effects resulting from modified land–atmosphere exchanges of carbon, energy, and water are...
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2015-01-01
Sperling, F. A. H., Polet, D. T., Flynn, M.R.
Microstructures on insect wings can promote directional drop shedding, and the local orientation of these structures is expected to facilitate drop removal. However, microstructures may exhibit very different orientations at different locations on the wing. Using the march fly Penthetria...
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2015
Raffa, Kenneth F., Aukema, Brian H., Bentz, Barbara J., Carroll, Allan L., Hicke, Jeffrey A., Kolb, Thomas E.
Bark beetles cause widespread tree mortal- ity, so understanding how climate change will infl uence the distribution and magni- tude of outbreaks by this group of herbi- vores is important. We fi rst develop a framework of outbreak dynamics that emphasizes transitions from states domi- nated by...
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Strategies for reforestation under uncertain future climates: guidelines for Alberta, Canada
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Abstract: Background: Commercial forestry programs normally use locally collected seed for reforestation under the assumption that tree populations are optimally adapted to local environments. However, in western Canada this assumption is no longer valid because of climate trends that have...
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Functional genomics of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) midguts and fat bodies
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Keeling, Christopher I., Bearfield, Jeremy C., Blomquist, Gary J., Schlauch, Karen, Tittiger, Claus, Young, Sharon, Aw, Tidiane
Background The mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) is a significant coniferous forest pest in western North America. It relies on aggregation pheromones to colonize hosts. Its three major pheromone components, trans-verbenol, exo-brevicomin, and frontalin, are thought to arise via...