Barbara J. Bentz:  Recently Funded Proposals

Interpreting pheromone trap captures for managing mountain pine beetles. B.J. Bentz, M. Hansen, J. Vandygriff.  Funding Source:  USDA Forest Service, Western Bark Beetle Initiative 2004.

Evaluation of a trap out strategy for protection of high elevation pines against mountain pine beetle attack.  B.J. Bentz, M. Hansen, and J. Vandygriff.  Funding Source:  USDA Forest Service, Western Bark Beetle Initiative 2004.

The role of bark beetle populations in delayed tree mortality following prescribed and wildland fires. B.J. Bentz, S. Hood, D. Bennett.  Funding Source: USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Special Technology Development Program. 2004-05.

Impacts of climate change on range expansion by the mountain pine beetle.  A. Carroll, J. Regniere, J. Logan, S. Taylor, B. Bentz, and S. Lindgren. Funding Source: Canadian Forest Service, MPBI;  2003-06.

Estimation of spruce beetle-caused tree mortality from pheromone trap catches.  E.M. Hansen, B.J. Bentz, and A.S. Munson. Funding Source: USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Special Technology Development Program.  2002-05.

Effects of associated fungi and ergosterol on the development, reproduction, and cold hardening of bark beetles. D.L. Six and B.J. Bentz. Funding Source: USDA, NRI, CSREES.  2001-03.

Homogenization applied to integrate across spatial and temporal scales in forest/insect ecology.  J. Powell, B. Bentz, R. Cutler, J. Logan.  Funding Source: National Science Foundation, Division of Mathematical Sciences, 2001-03.

Using remotely sensed imagery to estimate mountain pine beetle-caused mortality in lodgepole pine forests of Montana. B.J. Bentz, and K. Gibson.  Funding Source: Special Technology Development Program, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection.  FY 2001-02.

Biology, Ecology and Mangement of Western Bark Beetles

Rocky Mountain Research Station and the USDA Forest Service

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Barbara J. Bentz
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