Bark Beetles

Author : Fernando E. Vega,Richard W. Hofstetter
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780124171732

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Bark Beetles by Fernando E. Vega,Richard W. Hofstetter Pdf

Bark Beetles: Biology and Ecology of Native and Invasive Species provides a thorough discussion of these economically important pests of coniferous and broadleaf trees and their importance in agriculture. It is the first book in the market solely dedicated to this important group of insects, and contains 15 chapters on natural history and ecology, morphology, taxonomy and phylogenetics, evolution and diversity, population dynamics, resistance, symbiotic associations, natural enemies, climate change, management strategies, economics, and politics, with some chapters exclusively devoted to some of the most economically important bark beetle genera, including Dendroctonus, Ips, Tomicus, Hypothenemus, and Scolytus. This text is ideal for entomology and forestry courses, and is aimed at scientists, faculty members, forest managers, practitioners of biological control of insect pests, mycologists interested in bark beetle-fungal associations, and students in the disciplines of entomology, ecology, and forestry. Provides the only synthesis of the literature on bark beetles Features chapters exclusively devoted to some of the most economically important bark beetle genera, such as Dendroctonus, Ips, Tomicus, Hypothenemus, and Scolytus Includes copious color illustrations and photographs that further enhance the content

Author : Eunice Blavascunas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780253049599

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Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles by Eunice Blavascunas Pdf

"In Europe's last primeval forest, at Poland's easternmost border with Belarus, the deep past of ancient oaks, woodland bison, and thousands of species of insects and fungi collides with authoritarian and communist histories. Foresters, biologists, environmentalists, and locals project the ancient Bia±owieçza Forest as a series of competing icons in struggles over memory, land, and economy, which are also struggles about whether to log or preserve the woodland; whether and how to celebrate the mixed ethnic Polish/Belarusian peasant past; and whether to align this eastern outpost with ultraright Polish political parties, neighboring Belarus, or the European Union. Eunice Blavascunas provides an intimate ethnographic account, gathered in more than 20 years of research, to untangle complex forest conflicts between protection and use. She looks at which pasts are celebrated, which fester, and which are altered in the tumultuous decades following the collapse of communism. Foresters, Borders, and Bark Beetles is a timely and fascinating work of cultural analysis and storytelling that textures its ethnographic reading of people with the agency of the forest itself and its bark beetle outbreaks, which threaten to alter the very composition of the forest in the age of the Anthropocene"--

Author : Kamal J.K. Gandhi,Richard W. Hofstetter
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128224403

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Bark Beetle Management, Ecology, and Climate Change by Kamal J.K. Gandhi,Richard W. Hofstetter Pdf

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. 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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128027448

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Pine Bark Beetles by Anonim Pdf

Pine Bark Beetles, the latest release in the Advances in Insect Physiology series, provides readers with the latest interdisciplinary reviews on the topic. It is an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists, neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists, and insect chemists. Contains important, comprehensive, and in-depth reviews on insect physiology Provides an essential reference source for invertebrate physiologists and neurobiologists, entomologists, zoologists, and insect biochemists First published in 1963, this serial is ranked second in the highly competitive ISI category of entomology

Author : Boyd E. Wickman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bark beetles
ISBN : MINN:31951D029961735

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The Battle Against Bark Beetles in Crater Lake National Park, 1925-34 by Boyd E. Wickman Pdf

Author : Jiri Hulcr,Marc Abrahams
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781683402749

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The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles by Jiri Hulcr,Marc Abrahams Pdf

A loving look at one of the world’s most maligned, misunderstood, and fascinating insects Famous foe of forestry professionals and despised spreader of Dutch elm disease, bark beetles have a bad reputation: the World’s Worst Forest Pests. They chew through timber profits and kill healthy trees, turning forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. But entomologist Jiri Hulcr sees more to these evil weevils than meets the eye, and offers you a closer look—literally. With science journalist Marc Abrahams, Hulcr offers a funny and informative introduction to these under-studied and underappreciated insects.  This lively book turns cutting-edge research into an enjoyable tour through the miniature world of a charming critter. Vivid macrophotography captures every aspect of bark beetle life in stunning detail, from their dramatic family stories and curiously endearing looks to their mating strategies, and the secret fungus farms where they cultivate their own “ambrosia.” You’ll learn how much we don’t know about bark beetles—and what that means for science’s attempts to control them as climate change alters their habitats. Whether you’re a scientist seeking up-to-date pest management strategies or you’re just wondering if your backyard trees are at risk, this book will help you better understand the latest discoveries in beetle symbioses, molecular biology, and ecology. But be warned: at the end of this read you may be filled with affection for these adorable and astonishing beetles.

Author : Andrew Nikiforuk
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781553658948

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Empire of the Beetle by Andrew Nikiforuk Pdf

Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of improbable bark beetle outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western North America. An insect the size of a rice kernel eventually killed more than 30 billion pine and spruce trees from Alaska to New Mexico. Often appearing in masses larger than schools of killer whales, the beetles engineered one of the world's greatest forest die-offs since the deforestation of Europe by peasants between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. The beetle didn't act alone. Misguided science, out-of-control logging, bad public policy, and a hundred years of fire suppression created a volatile geography that released the world's oldest forest manager from all natural constraints. Like most human empires, the beetles exploded wildly and then crashed, leaving in their wake grieving landowners, humbled scientists, hungry animals, and altered watersheds. Although climate change triggered this complex event, human arrogance assuredly set the table. With little warning, an ancient insect pointedly exposed the frailty of seemingly stable manmade landscapes. Drawing on first-hand accounts from entomologists, botanists, foresters, and rural residents, award-winning journalist Andrew Nikiforuk, investigates this unprecedented beetle plague, its startling implications, and the lessons it holds.

Author : Reese Halter
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781926855660

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The Insatiable Bark Beetle by Reese Halter Pdf

"In our ever-warming world, trillions of indigenous bark beetles are killing billions of mature conifers throughout the forests of western North America and around the world, as they embark on their largest and most destructive feeding frenzy in modern times. In areas where cold temperatures traditionally prevented these insects from thriving, our once-healthy but now water-starved trees are becoming more and more vulnerable to the voracious appetites of these destructive pests. With aspects of both our environment and the economy at stake, Dr. Reese Halter's second RMB Manifesto provides information on the various types of beetles negatively impacting trees, descriptions of the ecosystems they currently inhabit, and an accessible look at the future humanity may face if we do not find ways to control greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, which are contributing factors to the ongoing spread of bark beetles." -- Publisher.

Author : François Lieutier,Keith R. Day,Andrea Battisti,Jean-Claude Grégoire,Hugh F. Evans
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402022418

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Bark and Wood Boring Insects in Living Trees in Europe, a Synthesis by François Lieutier,Keith R. Day,Andrea Battisti,Jean-Claude Grégoire,Hugh F. Evans Pdf

For the first time, a synthesis on the research work done in Europe on all Bark And Wood Boring Insects In Living Trees (BAWBILT) is presented. As final product of a four-year research project gathering together 100 scientists from 24 countries, the book is the fruit of a real collective synthesis in which all European specialists have participated. It reviews and comments on all the European literature, while considering the biological (trees, insects, associated organisms, and their relationships) and forest management aspects. However, although focused on the European forest, it also compares the available information and interpretations to those concerning similar species in other continents. It ends with propositions of research priorities for Europe. The book is directed to all scientists and students concerned with forest entomology and ecology, as well as to forest managers and all scientific public interested in forest biology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bark beetles
ISBN : UCD:31175033753107

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Bark Beetles in California Conifers by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bark beetles
ISBN : MINN:31951D02938259L

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The Western Bark Beetle Research Group by Anonim Pdf

"The compilation of papers in this proceedings is based on a symposium sponsored by the Insect and Diseases Working Group (D5) at the 2007 Society of American Foresters (SAF) convention in Portland, Oregon. The selection of topics parallels the research priorities of the Western Bark Beetle Research Group (WBBRG) (USDA Forest Service, Research and Development), which had been recently formed at the time of the symposium. Reflecting a unique partnership within the Forest Service, each paper was jointly prepared by a research scientist with the WBBRG and one or more entomologists with Forest Health Protection (USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry). Among these papers is a description of the currently elevated impacts of bark beetles in the Western United States; descriptions of the current state of knowledge of bark beetle response to vegetation management and also to climate change; discussions of the complex interactions of bark beetles and fire and of the complex ecological and socioeconomic impacts of infestations; an overview of the use of semiochemical (behavioral chemicals)-based technology for conifer protection; and a case study exemplifying efforts to assess risks posed by nonnative invasive bark beetles." --

Author : Richard E. White
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0395910897

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The Beetles of North America by Richard E. White Pdf

Over 600 drawings and 65 color paintings portray representative species of the 111 families of North American beetles. Includes information on collecting and preserving beetles.

Author : Fred E. Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Bark beetles
ISBN : HARVARD:32044107173759

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Orchard Barkbeetles and Pinhole Borers, and how to Control Them by Fred E. Brooks Pdf

Author : Jody Gladding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1571314555

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Translations from Bark Beetle by Jody Gladding Pdf

A powerful, eerie book. --CECILIA VICUÑA In this inspired collection, acclaimed poet and translator Jody Gladding takes the physical, elemental world as her point of inquiry, examining how language arises from landscape, and deriving a lexicon for these poems from the rich offerings of the world around her. In some poems, Gladding steps into the role of translator, interpreting fragments left by bark beetles or transcribing raven calls. In others, poems take the form of physical objects--a rock, split slate, an egg, a feather--or they emerge from a more expansive space--a salt flat at the Great Salt Lake, or a damaged woodlot. But regardless of the site, the source, or the material, the poet does not position herself as the innovator of these poems. Rather, the objects and landscapes we see in Translations from Bark Beetle provide the poet with both a shape and a language for each poem. The result is a collection that reminds us how to see and to listen, and which calls us to a deeper communion--true collaboration--between art and the more-than-human world.

Author : Maulsby Willett Blackman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Bark beetles
ISBN : UVA:X030354174

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Revision of the Bark Beetles Belonging to the Genus Pseudohylesinus Swaine by Maulsby Willett Blackman Pdf

The species of Pseudohylesinus, so far as now known, range from Alaska to Panama, and in the United States are confined to the western forests. In these forests the several species of true firs (Abies) most commonly serve as hosts for this genus of beetles.