Bentz B.J.; Jonsson A.M.; Schroeder M.; Weed A.; Wilcke R.A.; Larsson K. (2019) Ips typographus and Dendroctonus ponderosae models project thermal suitability for intra-and inter-continental establishment in a changing climate. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change 2:1. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00001
Hansen, E. Matthew; Munson, A. Steven; Wakarchuk, David; Blackford, Darren C.; Graves, Andrew D.; Stephens, Sky, Moan, Jason E. 2019. Advances in semiochemical repellents to mitigate host mortality from the spruce beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Journal of Economic Entomology 112(5): 2253-2261. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/toz172
McManis, Anne E.; Powell, James A.; Bentz, Barbara J. 2029. Modeling mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) oviposition. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 167: 457-466. https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12783
Eidson, Erika L.; Mock, Karen E.; Bentz, Barbara J. 2018. Low offspring survival in mountain pine beetle infesting the resistant Great Basin bristlecone pine supports the preference-performance hypothesis. PLoS ONE 13(5): e0196732. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196732
McManis, Anne E.; Powell, James A.; Bentz, Barbara J. 2018. Developmental parameters of a southern mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) population reveal potential source of latitudinal differences in generation time. Canadian Entomologist 151(1): 1-15. https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2018.51
Seybold, Steven J.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Fettig, Christopher J.; Lundquist, John E.; Progar, Robert A.; Gillette, Nancy E. 2018. Management of western North American Bark Beetles with Semiochemicals. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 63: 407-432. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043339
Bentz, Barbara J.; Hansen, E. Matthew. 2017. Evidence for a Prepupal Diapause in the Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Environmental Entomology 47(1):175-183 https://doi.org/10.1093/ee/nvx192
Bracewell, Ryan R.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Sullivan, Brian T.; Good, Jeffrey M. 2017. Rapid neo-sex chromosome evolution and incipient speciation in a major forest pest. Nature Communications 8(1): 1593. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01761-4
Davis, T.S.; Hansen, E.M. 2017. An ordinal day model of spruce beetle trap capture phenology in northern Colorado. J. Appl. Entomol. 142(1-2):277-281. https://doi.org/10.1111/jen.12424
Dowle, Eddy J.; Bracewell, Ryan R.; Pfrender, Michael E.; Mock, Karen E.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Ragland, Gregory J. 2017. Reproductive isolation and environmental adaptation shape the phylogeography of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Mol. Ecol. 26(21):6071-6084. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14342
Eidson, Erika L.; Mock, Karen E.; Bentz, Barbara J. 2017. Mountain pine beetle host selection behavior confirms high resistance in Great Basin bristlecone pine. Forest Ecol. Manag. 402: 12-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.06.034
Hansen, E. Matthew; Munson, A. Steven; Blackford, Darren C.; Graves, Andrew D.; Coleman, Tom W.; Baggett, L. Scott. 2017. 3-Methylcyclohex-2-en-1-one for area and individual tree protection against spruce beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) attack in the southern Rocky Mountains. J. Econ. Entomol. 110(5):2140-2148. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tox208
Loehman, R.A.; Bentz, B.J.; DeNitto, G.A.; Keane, R.E.; Manning, M.E.; Duncan, J.P.; Egan, J.M.; Jackson, M.B.; Kegley, S.; Lockman, I. B.; Pearson, D.E.; Powell, J.A.; Shelly, S.; Steed, B.E.; Zambino, P.J. 2017. Effects of climate change on ecological disturbances [Chapter 8]. In: Halofsky, Jessica E.; Peterson, David L.; Ho, Joanne J.; Little, Natalie, J.; Joyce, Linda A., eds. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region [Part 2]. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-375. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 199-263. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56928-4_7
Marini, Lorenzo; Okland, Bjorn; Jonsson, Anna Maria; Bentz, Barbara; Carroll, Allan; Forster, Beat; Gregoire, Jean-Claude; Hurling, Rainer; Nageleisen, Louis Michel; Netherer, Sigrid; Ravn, Hans Peter; Weed, Aaron; Schroeder, Martin. 2017. Climate drivers of bark beetle outbreak dynamics in Norway spruce forests. Ecography 40: 1426-1435. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.02769
Powell, James A.; Garlick, Martha J.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Friedenberg, Nicholas. 2017. Differential dispersal and the Allee effect create power-law behaviour: Distribution of spot infestations during mountain pine beetle outbreaks. J. Anim. Ecol. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12700
Schebeck, Martin; Hansen, E. Matthew; Schopf, Axel; Ragland, Gregory J.; Stauffer, Christian; Bentz, Barbara J. 2017. Diapause and overwintering of two spruce bark beetle species. Physiol. Entomol. 42: 200-210. https://doi.org/10.1111/phen.12200
Bentz, Barbara J.; Duncan, Jacob P.; Powell, James A. 2016. Elevational shifts in thermal suitability for mountain pine beetle population growth in a changing climate. Forestry 89(3): 271-283. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpv054
Bentz, Barbara J.; Hood, Sharon M.; Hansen, E. Matthew; Vandygriff, James C.; Mock, Karen E. 2016. Defense traits in the long-lived Great Basin bristlecone pine and resistance to the native herbivore mountain pine beetle. New Phytologist 213(2): 611-624. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14191
Hansen, E. Matthew; Munson, Steven; Blackford, Darren C.; Wakarchuk, David; Baggett, L. Scott. 2016. Lethal trap trees and semiochemical repellents as area host protection strategies for spruce beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) in Utah. J. of Econ. Entom. 109(5): 2137-2144. https://doi.org/10.1093/jee/tow172
Kolb, Thomas E.; Fettig, Christopher J.; Ayres, Matthew P.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Hicke, Jeffrey A.; Mathiasen, Robert; Stewart, Jane E.; Weed, Aaron S. 2016. Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States. Forest Ecol. Manag. 380: 321-334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.04.051
Krivan, Vlastimil; Lewis, Mark; Bentz, Barbara J.; Bewick, Sharon; Lenhart, Suzanne M.; Liebhold, Andrew. 2016. A dynamical model for bark beetle outbreaks. J. Theor. Biol. 407: 25-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.07.009
Lerch, Andrew P.; Pfammatter, Jesse A.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Raffa, Kenneth F. 2016. Mountain pine beetle dynamics and reproductive success in post-fire lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests in Northeastern Utah. PLoS one 11(10): e0164738. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0164738
Ramsfield, T.D.; Bentz, B.J.; Faccoli, M.; Jactel, H.; Brockerhoff, E.G. 2016. Forest health in a changing world: effects of globalization and climate change on forest insect and pathogen impacts. Forestry 89(3): 245-252. https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpw018
Addison, Audrey; Powell, James A.; Bentz, Barbara J.; Six, Diana L. 2015. Integrating models to investigate critical phonological overlaps in complex ecological interactions: The mountain pine beetle-fungus symbiosis. J. Theor. Biol. 368:55-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2014.12.011
Anderegg, Willian R.L.; Hicke, J.A.; Fisher, R.A.; Allen, C.D.; Aukema, J.; Bentz, B.J.; Hood, S.; Lichstein, J.W.; Macalady, A.K.; McDowell, N.; Pan, Y.; Raffa, K.; Sala, A.; Shaw, J.D.; Stephenson, N.L.; Tague, C.; and Zeppel, M. 2015. Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate. New Phytologist 208(3): 674-683. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13477
Bentz, Barbara J.; Boone, Celia; Raffa, Kenneth F. 2015. Tree response and mountain pine beetle attack preference, reproduction and emergence timing in mixed whitebark and lodgepole pine stands. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 17(4): 421-432. https://doi.org/10.1111/afe.12124
Hansen, E.M.; Amacher, M.C.; Miegroet, H.V.; Long, J.N.; and Ryan, M.G. 2015. Carbon dynamics in central US Rockies lodgepole pine type after mountain pine beetle outbreaks. For. Sci. 61(4):665-679. https://doi.org/10.5849/forsci.14-094
Hansen, E.M.; Johnson, M.C.; Bentz, B.J.; Vandygriff, J.C.; Munson, A.S. 2015. Fuel loads and simulated fire behavior in “old-stage” beetle-infested ponderosa pine of the Colorado Plateau. For. Sci. 61(4):644-664. https://doi.org/10.5849/forsci.14-081
Vandygriff, J.C.; Hansen, E.M.; Bentz, B.J.; Allen, K.K.; Amman, G.D.; Rasmussen, L.A. 2015. Long-term efficacy of diameter-limit cutting to reduce mountain pine beetle-caused tree mortality in a lodgepole pine forest. For. Chron. 91(4): 444-456. https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc2015-074
Weed, A.S.; Bentz, B.J.; Ayres, M.P.; and Holmes, T.P. 2015. Geographically variable response of Dendroctonus ponderosae to winter warming in the western United States. Landscape Ecol. 30(6):1075-1083. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-015-0170-z
Bentz, Barbara J.; Powell, James A. 2014. Mountain pine beetle seasonal timing and constraints to bivoltinism (A comment on Mitton and Ferrenberg, “mountain pine beetle develops an unprecedented summer generation in response to climate warming”). Am. Nat. 184(6): 787-796. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qt2qb
Bentz, Barbara; Vandygriff, James; Jensen, Camille; Coleman, Tom; Maloney, Patricia; Smith, Sheri; Grady, Amanda; Schen-Langenheim, Greta. 2014. Mountain pine beetle voltinism and life history characteristics across latitudinal and elevational gradients in the western United States. For. Sci. 60(3):434-449. https://doi.org/10.5849/forsci.13-056
Hansen, E.Matthew. 2014. Forest development and carbon dynamics after mountain pine beetle outbreaks. For. Sci. 60(3):476-488. https://doi.org/10.5849/forsci.13-039
Addison, A.L.; Powell, J.A.; Six, D.L.; Moore, M.; Bentz, B.J. 2013. The role of temperature variability in stabilizing the mountain pine beetle-fungus mutualism. J. Theor. Biol. 335:40-50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2013.06.012
Bracewell, Ryan R.; Pfrender, M.E.; Mock, K.E.; Bentz, B.J. 2013. Contrasting geographic patterns of genetic differentiation in body size and development time with reproductive isolation in Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 106(3):385-391. https://doi.org/10.1603/AN12133
Fettig, C.J.; Reid, M.L.; Bentz, B.J.; Sevanto, S.; Spittlehouse, D.L., Wang, T. 2013. Changing climates, changing forests: A western North American perspective. J. For. 111(3):214-228.
Crabb, B.A.; Powell J.A.; Bentz B.J. 2012. Development and assessment of 30-meter pine density maps for landscape-level modeling of mountain pine beetle dynamics. Res. Pap. RMRS-RP-93WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 43 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-RP-93
Davis, R.S.; Hood, S.; Bentz, B.J. 2012. Fire-injured ponderosa pine provide a pulsed resource for bark beetles. Can. J. For. Res. 42: 2022-2036. https://doi.org/10.1139/x2012-147
Gillette, N.E.; Hansen, E.M.; Mehmel, C.J.; Mori, S.R.; Webster, J.N.; Erbilgin, N.; Wood, D.L. 2012. Area-wide application of verbenone-releasing flakes reduces mortality of whitebark pine Pinus albicaulis caused by the mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae. Agriculture For. Entomol. 14(4):367-375. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-9563.2012.00577.x
Regniere, Jacques; Powell, J.A.; Bentz, B.J.; Nealis, V.G. 2012. Effects of temperature on development, survival and reproduction of insects: Experimental design, data analysis and modeling. J. Insect Physiol. 58:634-647. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jinsphys.2012.01.010
Bentz, B.J.; Bracewell, R.R.; Mock, K.E.; Pfrender, M.E. 2011. Genetic architecture and phenotypic plasticity of thermally-regulated traits in an eruptive species, Dendroctonus ponderosae. Evol. Ecol. 25:1269-1288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10682-011-9474-x
Bentz, Barbara; Campbell, Elizabeth; Gibson, Ken; Kegley, Sandra; Logan, Jesse; Six, Diana. 2011. Mountain Pine Beetle in High-Elevation Five-Needle White Pine Ecosystems. In: Keane, Robert E.; Tomback, Diana F.; Murray, Michael P.; Smith, Cyndi M., eds. The future of high-elevation, five-needle white pines in Western North America: Proceedings of the High Five Symposium. 28-30 June 2010; Missoula, MT. Proceedings RMRS-P-63. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 78-84.
Hansen, E. Matthew; Bentz, B.J.; Powell, J.A.; Gray, D.R.; Vandygriff, J.C. 2011. Prepupal diapauses and instar IV developmental rates of the spruce beetle, Dendroctonus rufipennis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae). J. Insect Physiol. 57:1347-1357.
Bentz, Barbara J.; Jacques, R.; Fettig, C.J.; Hansen, E.M.; Hayes, J.L.; Hicke, J.A.; Kelsey, R.G.; Negron, J.F.; Seybold, S.J. 2010. Climate change and bark beetles of the western United States and Canada: Direct and indirect effects. BioScience 60(8):602-613.
Bracewell, R.R.; Pfrender, M.E.; Mock, K.E.; Bentz, B.J. 2010. Cryptic postzygotic isolation in an eruptive species of bark beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Evolution 65(4):961-975. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01201.x
Hansen, E. Matthew; 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.
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