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High intercontinental migration rates and population admixture in the sapstain fungus Ophiostoma ips

, 2007
Ophiostoma ips is a common fungal associate of various conifer-infesting bark beetles in their native ranges and has been introduced into non-native pine plantations in the Southern Hemisphere.
ANNIE YART, Wingfield, Michael J., Klepzig, K., Zhou, Xudong, Wingfield, Michael, Wingfield, B.D., Klepzig, Kier, De Beer, Z. Wilhelm, Lieutier, Francois, Xudong, Zhou, MICHAEL J. WINGFIELD, Z. WILHELM DE BEER, Portales, J.M., TREENA I. BURGESS, de Beer, Wilhelm, JULIO MENA PORTALES, Zhou, X., Burgess, T.I., Carnegie, Angus J., Wingfield, Brenda, Wingfield, Brenda D., Portales, Julio Mena, KIER KLEPZIG, Carnegie, Angus, De Beer, Z.W., Carnegie, A.J., Burgess, Treena I., ANGUS CARNEGIE, Yart, A., BRENDA D. WINGFIELD, Yart, Annie, XUDONG ZHOU, FRANCOIS LIEUTIER, Burgess, Treena, Lieutier, F., Wingfield, M.J.   +35 more
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Scaling from microsite to landscape to resolve litter decomposition dynamics in globally extensive drylands

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Decomposition is the transformation of dead organic matter into its inorganic constituents. In most biomes, decomposition rates can be accurately predicted with simple mathematical models, but these models have long under‐predicted decomposition in globally extensive ...
Heather L. Throop, Jiwei Li, Daryl L. Moorhead, Sasha C. Reed, Katherine E. O. Todd‐Brown, Alexi C. Besser, Dellena Evelyn Bloom, Thomas C. Ingalls, Alejandro Cueva   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Isolation, Expression Profiling, and Regulation via Host Allelochemicals of 16 Glutathione S-Transferases in the Chinese White Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus armandi

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
The Chinese white pine beetle (Dendroctonus armandi) is undoubtedly one of the most important pests causing ecological damage in the Qinling Mountains. When bark beetles invade conifers, they must overcome host tree defenses, including primary resistance
Haiming Gao, Lulu Dai, Danyang Fu, Yaya Sun, Hui Chen, Hui Chen   +5 more
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Dead wood retention and the risk of bark beetle attack [PDF]

, 2002
Wind-felled Norway spruce trees left for conservation purposes and spruce stems stored as forest fuel may be colonised by the bark beetles Ips typographus and Pityogenes chalcographus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae).
Hedgren, Per Olof
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Decreasing water availability reduces productivity in Swiss forests along an altitudinal gradient

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Forests are one of the most important terrestrial carbon sinks, but are increasingly under pressure due to drought, heat and the occurrence of extreme events. There are opposing longer term trends for European forest growth reported, and severe drought and disturbance ...
Sophia Etzold, Arun K. Bose, Arthur Gessler, Frank Krumm, Katrin Meusburger, Marcus Schaub, Anne Thimonier, Peter Waldner, Roman Zweifel   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological and social factors lead to variation in parental care between sexes in a burying beetle

Insect Science, EarlyView.
We experimentally investigated the effects of ecological (resource availability and interspecific competition) and social factors (intraspecific competition) on parental care and reproductive success in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides. Our results showed that males and females adjust their parental care based on resource availability and ...
Donghui Ma, Long Ma, Jan Komdeur
wiley   +1 more source

Olfaction in the Spruce Bark Beetle, Ips typographus [PDF]

, 2011
The bark beetle Ips typographus regularly kills spruce trees in the Palearctic. Spruces are colonized by means of attraction to an aggregation pheromone. Attraction is modulated by anti-attractive volatiles (NHV) from non-host plants.
Andersson, Martin
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The impact of forest management on saproxylic beetles and other arthropods in a semi-deciduous forest in Southern Benin [PDF]

, 2004
Tropical forest ecosystems worldwide are suffering from anthropogenic pressures leading to deforestation and forest degradation, and resulting in a loss of biodiversity.
Lachat, Thibault
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Volumetric Comparison of Overall Brain and Neuropil Size Between Social and Non‐social Spiders: Exploring the Social Brain Hypothesis

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Brain size may be influenced by the cognitive demands of sociality (social brain hypothesis). We used microCT to compare CNS and brain volumes in social versus solitary huntsman and crab spiders. Social huntsman spiders had larger arcuate and mushroom bodies, while social crab spiders had larger visual neuropils.
Vanessa Penna‐Gonçalves, Donald James Mclean, Nikolas J. Willmott, Michael B. J. Kelly, Jay R. Black, Elizabeth C. Lowe, Marie E. Herberstein   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview of Genes From Cyberlindnera americana, a Symbiont Yeast Isolated From the Gut of the Bark Beetle Dendroctonus rhizophagus (Curculionidae: Scolytinae), Involved in the Detoxification Process Using Genome and Transcriptome Data

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2019
Bark beetles from Dendroctonus genus promote ecological succession and nutrient cycling in coniferous forests. However, they can trigger outbreaks leading to important economic losses in the forest industry.
L. Viridiana Soto-Robles, Verónica Torres-Banda, Flor N. Rivera-Orduña, Everardo Curiel-Quesada, María Eugenia Hidalgo-Lara, Gerardo Zúñiga   +5 more
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