Weathering the storm: how lodgepole pine trees survive mountain pine beetle outbreaks

The influence of variation in host tree monoterpene composition on secondary attraction by an invasive bark beetle: Implications for range expansion and potential host shift by the mountain pine beetle

(2016) Jordan L. Burke et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Fatty Acid Composition of Novel Host Jack Pine Do Not Prevent Host Acceptance and Colonization by the Invasive Mountain Pine Beetle and Its Symbiotic Fungus

(2016) Guncha Ishangulyyeva et al.   PLoS One

Tree response and mountain pine beetle attack preference, reproduction and emergence timing in mixed whitebark and lodgepole pine stands

(2015) Barbara J. Bentz et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

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

(2015) Bardan Ghimire et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pheromone Production by an Invasive Bark Beetle Varies with Monoterpene Composition of its Naïve Host

(2015) Spencer Taft et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Variations in foliar monoterpenes across the range of jack pine reveal three widespread chemotypes: implications to host expansion of invasive mountain pine beetle

(2015) Spencer Taft et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Mountain Pine Beetle Attack Associated with Low Levels of 4-Allylanisole in Ponderosa Pine

(2015) Jay J. Emerick et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Synergistic Blends of Monoterpenes for Aggregation Pheromones of the Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

(2015) John H. Borden et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Gene Discovery for Enzymes Involved in Limonene Modification or Utilization by the Mountain Pine Beetle-Associated Pathogen Grosmannia clavigera

(2014) Ye Wang et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Trade-offs between constitutive and induced defences drive geographical and climatic clines in pine chemical defences

(2014) Xoaquín Moreira et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The Effect of Dietary Fatty Acids on the Cuticular Hydrocarbon Phenotype of an Herbivorous Insect and Consequences for Mate Recognition

(2014) Tobias Otte et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Sub-lethal effects of monoterpenes on reproduction by mountain pine beetles

(2013) Clayton G. Manning et al.   AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST ENTOMOLOGY

Evolution of tree killing in bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): trade-offs between the maddening crowds and a sticky situation

(2013) B.S. Lindgren et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Chemical similarity between historical and novel host plants promotes range and host expansion of the mountain pine beetle in a naïve host ecosystem

(2013) Nadir Erbilgin et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Temperature-driven range expansion of an irruptive insect heightened by weakly coevolved plant defenses

(2013) K. F. Raffa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Residual mature trees and secondary stand structure after mountain pine beetle attack in central British Columbia

(2012) Christopher D.B. Hawkins et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Variation in carbon availability, defense chemistry and susceptibility to fungal invasion along the stems of mature trees

(2012) Devin W. Goodsman et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Inducibility of chemical defenses in Norway spruce bark is correlated with unsuccessful mass attacks by the spruce bark beetle

(2012) Christian Schiebe et al.   OECOLOGIA

Population dynamics in changing environments: the case of an eruptive forest pest species

(2011) Kyrre Kausrud et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Efficacy of tree defense physiology varies with bark beetle population density: a basis for positive feedback in eruptive species

(2011) Celia K. Boone et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FOREST RESEARCH

Tradeoffs associated with constitutive and induced plant resistance against herbivory

(2011) A. Kempel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Pheromone production in bark beetles

(2010) Gary J. Blomquist et al.   INSECT BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Importance of resin ducts in reducing ponderosa pine mortality from bark beetle attack

(2010) Jeffrey M. Kane et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

(2008) Kenneth F. Raffa et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Rapid induced resistance and host species effects on gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar (L.): Implications for outbreaks on three tree species in the boreal forest

(2008) David B. Roden et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT