Can Cities Activate Sleeper Species and Predict Future Forest Pests? A Case Study of Scale Insects

Anomalous outbreaks of an invasive defoliator and native bark beetle facilitated by warm temperatures, changes in precipitation, and interspecific interactions

(2019) Samuel F. Ward et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Exotic urban trees conserve similar natural enemy communities to native congeners but have fewer pests

(2019) Steven D. Frank et al.   PeerJ

Urbanization drives unique latitudinal patterns of insect herbivory and tree condition

(2019) Michael G. Just et al.   OIKOS

Impact of urbanization on predator and parasitoid insects at multiple spatial scales

(2019) Daria Corcos et al.   PLoS One

Prey–predator phenological mismatch under climate change

(2019) Maxime Damien et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Chronology of Gloomy Scale (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) Infestations on Urban Trees

(2019) Kristi M Backe et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Effects of temperature and habitat complexity on an urban tree pest (Tinocallis kahawaluokalani), natural enemies, and predation services in the city

(2019) Sarah E. Parsons et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Temperature accounts for the biodiversity of a hyperdiverse group of insects in urban Los Angeles

(2019) Terrence P. McGlynn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Thermal Tolerance of Gloomy Scale (Hemiptera: Diaspididae) in the Eastern United States

(2019) Michael G Just et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Environmental Adaptations, Ecological Filtering, and Dispersal Central to Insect Invasions

(2018) David Renault et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Assessment of abiotic and biotic factors associated with eastern white pine ( Pinus strobus L.) dieback in the Southern Appalachian Mountains

(2018) Ashley N. Schulz et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Water availability drives urban tree growth responses to herbivory and warming

(2018) Emily K. Meineke et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Should Cities Embrace Their Heat Islands as Shields from Extreme Cold?

(2018) Jiachuan Yang et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Natural Enemy Communities and Biological Control of Parthenolecanium spp. (Hemiptera: Coccidae) in the Southeastern United States

(2018) Ernesto Robayo Camacho et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Getting ahead of the curve: cities as surrogates for global change

(2018) Eleanor C. Lahr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impervious surface thresholds for urban tree site selection

(2018) Michael G. Just et al.   URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING

Wild bee abundance declines with urban warming, regardless of floral density

(2018) April L. Hamblin et al.   URBAN ECOSYSTEMS

Urban plants and climate drive unique arthropod interactions with unpredictable consequences

(2018) Adam G Dale et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Urban forest fragments buffer trees from warming and pests

(2018) Lawrence C. Long et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Beyond thermal limits: comprehensive metrics of performance identify key axes of thermal adaptation in ants

(2017) Clint A. Penick et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Threats to North American forests from southern pine beetle with warming winters

(2017) Corey Lesk et al.   Nature Climate Change

Warming and drought combine to increase pest insect fitness on urban trees

(2017) Adam G. Dale et al.   PLoS One

Colonization behaviors of mountain pine beetle on novel hosts: Implications for range expansion into northeastern North America

(2017) Derek W. Rosenberger et al.   PLoS One

Drivers, impacts, mechanisms and adaptation in insect invasions

(2016) Matthew P. Hill et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Responses of arthropod populations to warming depend on latitude: evidence from urban heat islands

(2016) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Urban warming reduces aboveground carbon storage

(2016) Emily Meineke et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Range-Expanding Pests and Pathogens in a Warming World

(2015) Daniel Patrick Bebber   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Invasions by two non-native insects alter regional forest species composition and successional trajectories

(2015) Randall S. Morin et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Biotic homogenization of three insect groups due to urbanization

(2015) Eva Knop   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Influence of temperature on the reproductive success, brood development and brood fitness of the eastern larch beetleDendroctonus simplexLeConte

(2014) Fraser R. McKee et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Early pest development and loss of biological control are associated with urban warming

(2014) E. K. Meineke et al.   Biology Letters

Supraoptimal temperatures influence the range dynamics of a non-native insect

(2014) Patrick C. Tobin et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Urban warming trumps natural enemy regulation of herbivorous pests

(2014) Adam G. Dale et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Potential Fecundity of a Highly Invasive Gall Maker,Dryocosmus kuriphilus(Hymenoptera: Cynipidae)

(2014) Ignazio Graziosi et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Do cities simulate climate change? A comparison of herbivore response to urban and global warming

(2014) Elsa Youngsteadt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The global spread of crop pests and pathogens

(2014) Daniel P. Bebber et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

How the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) Breached the Canadian Rocky Mountains

(2014) Jasmine K. Janes et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Drought-induced xylem cavitation and hydraulic deterioration: risk factors for urban trees under climate change?

(2014) Tadeja Savi et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The Effects of Urban Warming on Herbivore Abundance and Street Tree Condition

(2014) Adam G. Dale et al.   PLoS One

Mountain Pine Beetles Colonizing Historical and Naïve Host Trees Are Associated with a Bacterial Community Highly Enriched in Genes Contributing to Terpene Metabolism

(2013) Aaron S. Adams et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Climate change effects on behavioral and physiological ecology of predator–prey interactions: Implications for conservation biological control

(2013) Oswald J. Schmitz et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Overwintering survival of bagworms, Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (Lepidoptera: Psychidae): influence of temperature and egg cluster weight

(2013) Marc Rhainds et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Environmental determinants of population divergence in life-history traits for an invasive species: climate, seasonality and natural enemies

(2013) S. Seiter et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Urban Warming Drives Insect Pest Abundance on Street Trees

(2013) Emily K. Meineke et al.   PLoS One

Human-mediated long-distance jumps of the pine processionary moth in Europe

(2011) Christelle Robinet et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Relationships among beech bark disease, climate, radial growth response and mortality of American beech in northern Maine, USA

(2011) M. T. Kasson et al.   FOREST PATHOLOGY

Novel insect-tree associations resulting from accidental and intentional biological ‘invasions’: a meta-analysis of effects on insect fitness

(2010) Coralie Bertheau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Trait plasticity in species interactions: a driving force of community dynamics

(2010) Matty P. Berg et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Direct impacts of recent climate warming on insect populations

(2010) Christelle ROBINET et al.   Integrative Zoology

Climate change and range expansion of an aggressive bark beetle: evidence of higher beetle reproduction in naïve host tree populations

(2010) Timothy J. Cudmore et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Ecology of Herbivorous Arthropods in Urban Landscapes

(2009) Michael J. Raupp et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Responses of insect pests, pathogens, and invasive plant species to climate change in the forests of northeastern North America: What can we predict?This article is one of a selection of papers from NE Forests 2100: A Synthesis of Climate Change Impacts on Forests of the Northeastern US and Eastern Canada.

(2009) Jeffrey S. Dukes et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Ranking Lepidopteran Use of Native Versus Introduced Plants

(2009) DOUGLAS W. TALLAMY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Experimental warming transforms multiple predator effects in a grassland food web

(2009) Brandon T. Barton et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Ecological effects of invasive alien insects

(2008) Marc Kenis et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Constructing Retrospective Gridded Daily Precipitation and Temperature Datasets for the Conterminous United States

(2008) Mauro Di Luzio et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology