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2016-06-13
Vlastimil Kˇrivan, Mark Lewis, Barbara J. Bentz, Sharon Bewick, Suzanne M. Lenhart, Andrew Liebhold
Tree-killing bark beetles are major disturbance agents affecting coniferous forest ecosystems. The role of environmental conditions on driving beetle outbreaks is becoming increasingly important as global climatic change alters environmental factors, such as drought stress, that, in turn, govern...
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Fall 2021
Dispersal is one of the most important life-history events facing an individual, but how and why individuals arrive at the decision to leave home is largely unknown. This decision has immediate and lifelong fitness consequences. Therefore, understanding how individuals make dispersal decisions is...
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Influence of Semiochemical Cues on Mountain Pine Beetle Flight and Subsequent Effect of Flight on Host Colonisation Processes
DownloadFall 2019
The mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is an aggressive pine pest in western North America. This beetle undergoes cyclical population outbreaks, and in the most recent outbreak the beetle expanded its range to the north and east. During this range...
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Fall 2020
Dispersal by flight is a complex life history phase in many insects that is essential to gene flow and range expansion. Many elements contribute to realized dispersal, including biotic and abiotic environmental conditions, as well as intrinsic factors such as morphology, physiology and behavior....
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2016-01-01
Stephanie J. Peacock, Andrew W. Bateman, Martin Krkosek, Mark A. Lewis
The dynamics of coupled populations have mostly been studied in the context of metapopulation viability with application to, for example, species at risk. However, when considering pests and pathogens, eradication, not persistence, is often the end goal. Humans may intervene to control nuisance...
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The Spread of the Mountain Pine Beetle: Challenges and Solutions in Large-scale Spatial Ecological Modeling
DownloadSpring 2020
The mountain pine beetle (MPB) is among the most destructive eruptive forest pests in North America. A recent increase in the frequency and severity of oubtreaks, combined with an eastward range expansion towards untouched boreal pine forests, has spurred a great interest by government, industry...
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2022-01-01
Peter D. Harrington, Danielle L. Cantrell, Michael G. G. Foreman, Ming Guo, Mark A. Lewis
Sea lice are a threat to the health of both wild and farmed salmon and an economic burden for salmon farms. With a free-living larval stage, sea lice can disperse tens of kilometres in the ocean between salmon farms, leading to connected sea louse populations that are difficult to control in...