2008 ESA Annual Meeting, November 16-19, 2008: Forest Entomology: Changes Impacting Our Discipline

Organizers:

John T. Nowak , Christopher J. Fettig and David R. Coyle

Predicting change in Western wildlands and impact on forest health issues
Jerry S. Beatty, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

0194

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

Audio File Recorded presentation

0195

Potential impacts of changing land ownership patterns in the South on southern pine beetle outbreaks
Robert N. Coulson, Texas A&M University

Audio File Recorded presentation

Break 1

0196

Successful colonization, reproduction, and emergence of mountain pine beetle in interior hybrid spruce
Dezene P. W. 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

0197

Climate change, forest disturbance and feedbacks: The mountain pine beetle in western North America
Allan Carroll, Canadian Forest Service

Audio File Recorded presentation

0198

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

Break 2

0199

Southern pine beetle in a changing environment
Fred Hain, North Carolina State University; Adrian Duehl, North Carolina State University

Audio File Recorded presentation

0200

Rising atmospheric CO₂ and O₃ levels: Effects on tree chemistry, insect community composition and ecosystem processes at Aspen FACE
Michael Hillstrom, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Audio File Recorded presentation

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Herbivory changes in a high CO₂ world
Jason Hamilton, Ithaca College

Concluding Remarks

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