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Bark Beetle Management, Ecology, and Climate Change

  • 1st Edition - October 28, 2021
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Richard W. Hofstetter
  • Language: English

Bark Beetle Management, Ecology, and Climate Change provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on the complex effects of global warming upon the economically and… Read more

Description

Bark Beetle Management, Ecology, and Climate Change provides the most updated and comprehensive knowledge on the complex effects of global warming upon the economically and ecologically important bark beetle species and their host trees. This authoritative reference synthesizes information on how forest disturbances and environmental changes due to current and future climate changes alter the ecology and management of bark beetles in forested landscapes.

Written by international experts on bark beetle ecology, this book covers topics ranging from changes in bark beetle distributions and addition of novel hosts due to climate change, interactions of insects with altered host physiology and disturbance regimes, ecosystem-level impacts of bark beetle outbreaks due to climate change, multi-trophic changes mediated via climate change, and management of bark beetles in altered forests and climate conditions.

Bark Beetle Management, Ecology, and Climate Change is an important resource for entomologists, as well as forest health specialists, policy makers, and conservationists who are interested in multi-faceted impacts of climate change on forest insects at the organismal, population, and community-levels.

Key features

  • The only book that addresses the impacts of global warming on bark beetles with feedback loops to forest patterns and processes
  • Discusses altered disturbance regimes due to climate change with implications for bark beetles and associated organisms
  • Led by a team of editors whose expertise includes entomology, pathology, ecology, forestry, modeling, and tree physiology

Readership

Bark Beetle Management, Ecology, and Climate Change is an important resource for entomologists, as well as forest health specialists, policy makers, and conservationists who are interested in multi-faceted impacts of climate change on forest insects at the organismal, population, and community-levels.

Table of contents

Part I: Insect distributions and novel hosts

1. Climate change and invasion by non-native bark and ambrosia beetles
Deepa S. Pureswaran, Massimo Faccoli, Nicolas Meurisse, Davide Rassati and Andrew Liebhold

2. Complexities in predicting mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle response to climate change
Barbara Bentz, E. Mattew Hansen, Marianne Davenport, and David Soderberg

3. Responses and modeling of southern pine beetle and its host pines to climate change
Carissa Aoki, Holly Lynn Munro and Kamal JK Gandhi

Part II: Interactions of insects with altered host physiology

4. The Eurasian spruce bark beetle in a warming climate: phenology, behaviour and biotic interactions
Sigrid Netherer and Almuth Hammerbacher

5. Southwestern examples
Thomas Seth Davis

6. Relationships between drought, coniferous tree physiology, and Ips bark beetles under climatic changes
Bailey H. McNichol, Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Stephen Clarke, Massimo Faccoli, Cristian Montes, John Nowak and John Reeve

Part III: Interactions of insects with altered disturbance regimes

7. Interactions between catastrophic wind disturbances and bark beetles in forested ecosystems
Benjamin Gochnour, Seth Spinner, Kier D. Klepzig and Kamal J.K. Gandhi

Part IV: Ecosystem-level impacts of bark beetle outbreaks due to climate change

8. Bark beetle outbreaks alter biotic components of forested ecosystems
Kamal J.K. Gandhi, Chelsea N. Miller, Paula J. Fornwalt, and John M. Frank

9. Eastern larch beetle, a changing climate, and impacts to northern tamarack forests
Brian Aukema, Fraser McKee, Marcella Windmuller-Campione, Emily Althoff, Mike Reinikainen and Paul Dubuque

Part V: Multi-trophic changes mediated via climate change

10. Effects of rising temperatures on ectosymbiotic communities associated with bark and ambrosia beetles
Richard W. Hofstetter, Kier D. Klepzig and Caterina Villari

Part VI: Management of bark beetles in altered forests and climate conditions

11. Management strategies to reduce bark beetle impacts in North America and Europe under altered forest and climatic conditions
Christopher J. Fettig, John Nowak, Joel Egan, Horst Delb, Jacek Hilszczański, Markus Kautz, Steve Munson and Jose Negrón

12. Conclusions: interactions among climate, disturbance and bark beetles affect the forest landscapes of the future
Richard W. Hofstetter and Kamal J.K. Gandhi

Review quotes

"….This book will have broad appeal both as an essential resource for amateur and professional herpetologists as well as an informative guide for anyone interested in the background and biology of exotic amphibians and reptiles. Cumulatively, the species accounts offer up-to-date coverage that will be useful to land managers, state and federal agencies, conservation groups, and research ecologists interested in seeking further data on the ecological effects of exotic species on local habitats."—The Quarterly Review of Biology

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: November 2, 2021
  • Language: English

About the editors

KG

Kamal J.K. Gandhi

Kamal J.K. Gandhi is a Professor of Forest Entomology at the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She is also the director of the Southern Pine Health Research Cooperative. She has published extensively on the population, community, and chemical ecology of bark beetles particularly under disturbance regimes in diverse ecosystem-types.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Forest Entomology, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA

RH

Richard W. Hofstetter

Richard Hofstetter is a Professor of Forest Entomology in the School of Forestry at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. He has published extensively on bark beetle biology, symbioses, communication and host tree interactions, and is the coauthor of Bark Beetles: Biology and Ecology of Native and Invasive Species (Academic Press, 2015).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Forest Entomology, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University, Arizona, USA

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