Readings for 3/9 - Climate Change & Beetle Population Dynamics

    -Discussion Papers:

• Ecological Consequences of Climate Change Altered Forest Insect Disturbance Regimes - Logan and Powell (in review)

• Effects of Climate Change on Range Expansion by the
  Mountain Pine Beetle in British Columbia - Carroll, Taylor, Régnière, and Safranyik (2003)

   -Background Readings:

• Ghost forests, global warming, and the mountain pine beetle - Logan and Powell (2001)

• Insect Seasonality: Circle Map Analysis of Temperature-Driven Life Cycles - Powell and Logan (in review)

• Assessing the Impacts of Global Warming on Forest Pest dynamics - Logan, Régnière, and Powell (2003)

Readings for 3/2 - Drought and Tree Defense

• The Role of Drought in Outbreaks of Plant-eating Insects - Mattson and Haack (1987)

• Environmental effects on constitutive and inducible resin defences of Pinus taeda - Lombardero et al (2000)

Readings for 2/23 - Climate and Fire

• Interactions Between Fire and Spruce Beetles in a Subalpine Rocky Mountain Forest Landscape - Bebi et al (2003)

• Insects In: Yellowstone Vegetation - Despain (1990)

Biology, Ecology and Mangement of Western Bark Beetles

Rocky Mountain Research Station and the USDA Forest Service, Logan Utah 84321

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