Sunday, November 16, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM

Room A10, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Symposium: Forest Entomology: Changes Impacting Our Discipline

Organizer(s): John T. Nowak, jnowak@fs.fed.us
Christopher J. Fettig, cfettig@fs.fed.us
David R. Coyle, dcoyle@entomology.wisc.edu
1:30 PMIntroductory Remarks
1:40 PM 0193Predicting change in Western wildlands and impact on forest health issues
Jerry S. Beatty
2:00 PM0194What’s happened out there: Effects of public policies, management trends, forest conditions and other factors on bark beetle outbreaks in North America
Christopher J. Fettig, cfettig@fs.fed.us, John T. Nowak, jnowak@fs.fed.us
2:20 PM0195Potential impacts of changing land ownership patterns in the South on southern pine beetle outbreaks
Robert N. Coulson, r-coulson@tamu.edu
2:40 PM Break 1
2:55 PM 0196Successful colonization, reproduction, and emergence of mountain pine beetle in interior hybrid spruce
Dezene P. W. Huber, huber@unbc.ca, Fraser R. McKee, fraser_mckee@hotmail.com, Brian H. Aukema, baukema@nrcan.gc.ca, Robert Hodgkinson, Robert.Hodgkinson@gov.bc.ca, B. Staffan Lindgren, lindgren@unbc.ca
3:15 PM0197Climate change, forest disturbance and feedbacks: The mountain pine beetle in western North America
Allan Carroll
3:35 PM 0198Anthropogenic influences on insect-induced landscape change in British Columbia: A tale of mountain pine beetles and Warren root collar weevils
Brian Aukema, baukema@pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca, B. Staffan Lindgren, lindgren@unbc.ca, Matthew D. Klingenberg, mklingenberg@gmail.com
3:55 PM Break 2
4:10 PM0199Southern pine beetle in a changing environment
Fred Hain, fred_hain@ncsu.edu, Adrian Duehl, ajduehl@ncsu.edu
4:30 PM0200Rising atmospheric CO2 and O3 levels: Effects on tree chemistry, insect community composition and ecosystem processes at Aspen FACE
Michael Hillstrom, hillstro@entomology.wisc.edu
4:50 PM 0201Herbivory changes in a high CO2 world
Jason Hamilton, jhamilton@ithaca.edu
5:10 PM Concluding Remarks

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