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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
1:30 PM
Introductory Remarks
Audio File
1:40 PM
0193
Predicting change in Western wildlands and impact on forest health issues
Jerry S. Beatty, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
2:00 PM
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; John T. Nowak, USDA - Forest Service
Audio File
2:20 PM
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
2:40 PM
Break 1
2:55 PM
0196
Successful colonization, reproduction, and emergence of mountain pine beetle in interior hybrid spruce
Dezene 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; Staffan Lindgren, University of Northern British Columbia
3:15 PM
0197
Climate change, forest disturbance and feedbacks: The mountain pine beetle in western North America
Allan Carroll, Canadian Forest Service
Audio File
3:35 PM
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; Staffan Lindgren, University of Northern British Columbia; Matthew Klingenberg, University of Northern British Columbia
3:55 PM
Break 2
4:10 PM
0199
Southern pine beetle in a changing environment
Fred P. Hain, North Carolina State University; Adrian Duehl, USDA, Agricultural Research Service
Audio File
4:30 PM
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
4:50 PM
0201
Herbivory changes in a high CO2 world
Jason Hamilton, Ithaca College
5:10 PM
Concluding Remarks
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