Forest and Woodlands Ecosystems

PROJECT: Develop a scientifically credible knowledge base of ecological disturbances associated with bark beetles (e.g., mountain pine beetle, spruce beetle) in coniferous forests. Apply this information in effective management options designed to maintain or restore these forests into productive, sustainable ecosystems at stand, landscape, and regional levels.

  Bentz, Barbara ed. 2009. Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Western North America: Causes and Consequences.  Bark Beetle Symposium, Snowbird, Utah. 42p.

  Hansen, E.M., Negron, J.F., Munson, A.S., Anhold, J.A. 2010. A retrospective assessment of partial cutting to reduce spruce beetle-caused mortality in the southern Rocky Mountains. West. J. Appl. For. 25(2):81-87.

 Régnière, J., B.J. Bentz. 2007. Modeling cold tolerance in the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae. Journal of Insect Physiology 53: 559–572.

  Mock, K.E., Bentz, B.J., O’Neill, E.M., Chong, J.P., Orwin, J., Pfrender, M.E. 2007. Landscape-scale genetic variation in a forest outbreak species, the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Molecular Ecology 16: 553–568.