Forest Entomology: Changes Impacting Our Discipline

Sunday, November 16, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:30 PM
Room A10, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)
Organizers:
John T. Nowak
Christopher J. Fettig
David R. Coyle


1:40 PM
Predicting change in Western wildlands and impact on forest health issues
Jerry S. Beatty, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
2:00 PM
What’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, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station ; John T. Nowak, USDA Forest Service, Southern Region
2:40 PM
2:55 PM
Successful colonization, reproduction, and emergence of mountain pine beetle in interior hybrid spruce
Dezene PW. Huber, University of Northern British Columbia ; Fraser R. McKee, University of Northern British Columbia ; Brian H. Aukema, Canadian Forest Service & University of Northern British Columbia ; Robert Hodgkinson, British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range ; B. Staffan Lindgren, University of Northern British Columbia
3:35 PM
Anthropogenic influences on insect-induced landscape change in British Columbia: A tale of mountain pine beetles and Warren root collar weevils
Brian Aukema, University of Northern British Columbia ; B. Staffan Lindgren, University of Northern British Columbia ; Matthew D. Klingenberg, University of Northern British Columbia
3:55 PM
4:10 PM
Southern pine beetle in a changing environment
Fred Hain, North Carolina State University ; Adrian Duehl, USDA - ARS
4:50 PM
Herbivory changes in a high CO2 world
Jason Hamilton, Ithaca College
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