Invasives, Climate Change, and Forest Management: the Forest Service Research Perspective

Gillette, Nancy E.

ESA Annual Meetings Online Program

Invasives, Climate Change, and Forest Management: the Forest Service Research Perspective

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 7:55 AM-12:00 PM

Room A13, First Floor (Reno-Sparks Convention Center)

Organizer :

Nancy E. Gillette

Moderator:

Mary Ellen Dix

7:55 AM

Welcoming Remarks

8:00 AM

1338

Mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western North America: causes and consequences

Christopher J. Fettig, USDA, Forest Service; Barbara J. Bentz, USDA - Forest Service; Ken Gibson; Nancy E. Gillette, USDA - Forest Service; Michael J. Jenkins, Utah State University; Carl L. Jorgensen, USDA - Forest Service; Stephen R. McKelvey, USDA - Forest Service; Steve Munson, USDA - Forest Service; Jose Negron, USDA - Forest Service; Robert A. Progar, USDA - Forest Service; Brytten E. Steed, USDA - Forest Service

8:20 AM

1339

Spruce beetle, carbon dynamics, and CO2 fluxes in a subalpine forest in Wyoming

Jose Negron, USDA - Forest Service; LS. Huckaby, USDA - Forest Service; J. Frank, USDA - Forest Service; Wj. Massman, USDA - Forest Service

8:40 AM

1340

Efforts to reduce mountain pine beetle attack in lodgepole pine using verbenone

Robert A. Progar, USDA - Forest Service; Carl L. Jorgensen, USDA - Forest Service; Darren Blackford, USDA - Forest Service; Danny Cluck, USDA - Forest Service; R. Halsey, USDA - Forest Service; Sheryl Costello, USDA - Forest Service; Tom Eager, USDA - Forest Service; Philip J. Mocettini, USDA - Forest Service; Steve Munson, USDA - Forest Service; Brytten E. Steed, USDA - Forest Service

9:00 AM

1341

Assessing pest impacts under a changing climate

John E. Lundquist, USDA - Forest Service

9:20 AM

1342

Climate and high elevation defoliators in the Southwest

Ann M. Lynch, USDA - Forest Service

9:40 AM

1343

A tale of two hardwood invasives: the research and management response of Forest Service R&D and FHP to gold-spotted oak borer and walnut twig beetle

Steven Seybold, USDA - Forest Service; Tom W. Coleman, USDA - Forest Service; Andrew D. Graves, USDA - Forest Service

10:00 AM

Break

10:15 AM

1344

Novel interactions between a “reverse invasive” bark beetle and its newly acquired fungal associates

Nancy E. Gillette, USDA - Forest Service; Jianghua Sun, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Min Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Donald Owen, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection; Michael Wingfield, University of Pretoria

10:35 AM

1345

Working in Pacific island forests: a search for hope

Tracy Johnson, USDA - Forest Service; Flint Hughes, USDA - Forest Service; Christian Giardina, USDA - Forest Service

10:55 AM

1346

Herbivore-induced plant defenses and biological control of invasive plants

Justin B. Runyon, USDA - Forest Service

11:15 AM

1347

Hybrid weeds and agent genotypes: factors confounding biological control of weeds

Sharlene Sing, USDA - Forest Service