Biotic disturbances in Northern Hemisphere forests - a synthesis of recent data, uncertainties and implications for forest monitoring and modelling

Remote sensing of forest pest damage: a review and lessons learned from a Canadian perspective

(2016) R.J. Hall et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Transition from windfall- to patch-driven outbreak dynamics of the spruce bark beetle Ips typographus

(2016) Bjørn Økland et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985–2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline

(2016) Warren B. Cohen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Responses of Temperate Forest Productivity to Insect and Pathogen Disturbances

(2015) Charles E. Flower et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Natural disturbance impacts on ecosystem services and biodiversity in temperate and boreal forests

(2015) Dominik Thom et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Representing climate, disturbance, and vegetation interactions in landscape models

(2015) Robert E. Keane et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Net primary production of a temperate deciduous forest exhibits a threshold response to increasing disturbance severity

(2015) Ellen J. Stuart-Haëntjens et al.   ECOLOGY

Global forest area disturbance from fire, insect pests, diseases and severe weather events

(2015) Pieter van Lierop et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Large carbon release legacy from bark beetle outbreaks across Western United States

(2015) Bardan Ghimire et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Small beetle, large-scale drivers: how regional and landscape factors affect outbreaks of the European spruce bark beetle

(2015) Rupert Seidl et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Influence of tree species on continental differences in boreal fires and climate feedbacks

(2015) Brendan M. Rogers et al.   Nature Geoscience

Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate

(2015) William R. L. Anderegg et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Global satellite monitoring of climate-induced vegetation disturbances

(2015) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

China’s National Monitoring Program on Ecological Functions of Forests: An Analysis of the Protocol and Initial Results

(2015) Jun Yang et al.   Forests

Interactions among spruce beetle disturbance, climate change and forest dynamics captured by a forest landscape model

(2015) Christian Temperli et al.   Ecosphere

Disturbance interactions: characterization, prediction, and the potential for cascading effects

(2015) B. Buma   Ecosphere

Modeling the Terrestrial Biosphere

(2014) Joshua B. Fisher et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Reconstructing Disturbances and Their Biogeochemical Consequences over Multiple Timescales

(2014) Kendra K. McLauchlan et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Annual mapping of large forest disturbances across Canada’s forests using 250 m MODIS imagery from 2000 to 2011

(2014) L. Guindon et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

A general ecophysiological framework for modelling the impact of pests and pathogens on forest ecosystems.

(2014) Michael C. Dietze et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effect of host tree density and apparency on the probability of attack by the pine processionary moth

(2014) Margot Régolini et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

On correcting the time-lag bias in aerial-surveyed bark beetle infestation data

(2014) Markus Kautz   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Drivers of the bark beetle disturbance regime in Alpine forests in Austria

(2014) Ferenc Pasztor et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Spatial interactions between storm damage and subsequent infestations by the European spruce bark beetle

(2014) Golo Stadelmann et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Patterns and causes of observed piñon pine mortality in the southwestern United States

(2014) Arjan J. H. Meddens et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Increasing forest disturbances in Europe and their impact on carbon storage

(2014) Rupert Seidl et al.   Nature Climate Change

Insect-induced tree mortality of boreal forests in eastern Canada under a changing climate

(2014) Xiongqing Zhang et al.   Ecology and Evolution

An Automated Approach to Map the History of Forest Disturbance from Insect Mortality and Harvest with Landsat Time-Series Data

(2014) Christopher Neigh et al.   Remote Sensing

Population Cycles in Forest Lepidoptera Revisited

(2013) Judith H. Myers et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Quantifying error in aerial survey data

(2013) Erik W. Johnson et al.   AUSTRALIAN FORESTRY

Consequences of climate change for biotic disturbances in North American forests

(2013) Aaron S. Weed et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Cross-scale interactions among bark beetles, climate change, and wind disturbances: a landscape modeling approach

(2013) Christian Temperli et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Carbon stocks of trees killed by bark beetles and wildfire in the western United States

(2013) Jeffrey A Hicke et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Sensitivity of climate mitigation strategies to natural disturbances

(2013) Y Le Page et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Carbon in Canada’s boreal forest — A synthesis

(2013) W.A. Kurz et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

The Consequence of Tree Pests and Diseases for Ecosystem Services

(2013) I. L. Boyd et al.   SCIENCE

High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change

(2013) M. C. Hansen et al.   SCIENCE

Comparing Aerial Detection and Photo Interpretation for Conducting Forest Health Surveys

(2013) Justin C. Backsen et al.   WESTERN JOURNAL OF APPLIED FORESTRY

Guess the impact of Ips typographus—An ecosystem modelling approach for simulating spruce bark beetle outbreaks

(2012) Anna Maria Jönsson et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY

Red Turpentine Beetle: Innocuous Native Becomes Invasive Tree Killer in China

(2012) Jianghua Sun et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Forest pathogens with higher damage potential due to climate change in Europe

(2012) N. La Porta et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF PLANT PATHOLOGY

Spatiotemporal patterns of observed bark beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the western United States

(2012) Arjan J. H. Meddens et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Effects of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on wildfire

(2012) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Cascading impacts of bark beetle-caused tree mortality on coupled biogeophysical and biogeochemical processes

(2012) Steven L Edburg et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Geometrid outbreak waves travel across Europe

(2012) Olle Tenow et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Connecting dynamic vegetation models to data - an inverse perspective

(2012) Florian Hartig et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Fire-induced carbon emissions and regrowth uptake in western U.S. forests: Documenting variation across forest types, fire severity, and climate regions

(2012) Bardan Ghimire et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Biogeographical patterns and determinants of invasion by forest pathogens in Europe

(2012) A. Santini et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature as a potent driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

(2012) A. Park Williams et al.   Nature Climate Change

Forest Insect Pest Management and Forest Management in China: An Overview

(2011) Lanzhu Ji et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Toward dynamic global vegetation models for simulating vegetation–climate interactions and feedbacks: recent developments, limitations, and future challenges

(2011) Anne Quillet et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEWS

Quantifying spatio-temporal dispersion of bark beetle infestations in epidemic and non-epidemic conditions

(2011) Markus Kautz et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Carbon consequences of forest disturbance and recovery across the conterminous United States

(2011) Christopher A. Williams et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada

(2011) Jeffrey A. Hicke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Simulating coupled carbon and nitrogen dynamics following mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the western United States

(2011) Steven L. Edburg et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Simulating the impacts of disturbances on forest carbon cycling in North America: Processes, data, models, and challenges

(2011) Shuguang Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Mountain pine beetle host-range expansion threatens the boreal forest

(2011) CATHERINE I. CULLINGHAM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Climate change and forest diseases

(2011) R. N. Sturrock et al.   PLANT PATHOLOGY

The interdependence of mechanisms underlying climate-driven vegetation mortality

(2011) Nate G. McDowell et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

(2010) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Impacts of caterpillar disturbance on forest net primary production estimation in China

(2010) Lin Huang et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Modelling natural disturbances in forest ecosystems: a review

(2010) Rupert Seidl et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Future Spruce Budworm Outbreak May Create a Carbon Source in Eastern Canadian Forests

(2010) Caren C. Dymond et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Massive mortality of aspen following severe drought along the southern edge of the Canadian boreal forest

(2010) MICHAEL MICHAELIAN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

An inventory-based analysis of Canada's managed forest carbon dynamics, 1990 to 2008

(2010) G. STINSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Induced BVOCs: how to bug our models?

(2010) Almut Arneth et al.   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Natural stand structures, disturbance regimes and successional dynamics in the Eurasian boreal forests: a review with special reference to Russian studies

(2009) Ekaterina Shorohova et al.   ANNALS OF FOREST SCIENCE

Is There a Latitudinal Gradient in the Importance of Biotic Interactions?

(2009) Douglas W. Schemske et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A global overview of drought and heat-induced tree mortality reveals emerging climate change risks for forests

(2009) Craig D. Allen et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Monitoring the spatio-temporal dynamics of geometrid moth outbreaks in birch forest using MODIS-NDVI data

(2009) J.U. Jepsen et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Ecological impacts of non-indigenous invasive fungi as forest pathogens

(2008) Judy A. Loo   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Impact of bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) disturbance on timber production and carbon sequestration in different management strategies under climate change

(2008) Rupert Seidl et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

(2008) W. A. Kurz et al.   NATURE