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Climate Change and Forest Insect Pests

open access: yes, 2023
AbstractClimate change and the underlying causal factors have been thoroughly described in the scientific literature. Although well understood and documented in general, we are only beginning to understand the effects of climate change on biotic systems, such as insect communities.
Andrea Battisti, Stig Larsson
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Pathogens—The Hidden Face of Forest Invasions by Wood-Boring Insect Pests [PDF]

open access: goldFrontiers in Plant Science, 2019
Forests are one of the most important global vegetation types, serving functions from supporting healthy watershed, to wildlife habitat, and economic industries through their harvesting and tourism value. Understanding and mitigating threats to these resources is therefore of great societal importance.
Linnakoski, Riikka, Forbes, Kristian M.
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Insect pests in the forests of Bulgaria and their economic importance

open access: diamondPolish Journal of Entomology, 2020
Based on the forest-pathological inventories for the last 30 years, the economic importance of the insect pests in the Bulgarian forests and its dynamics for the periods 1990–2002 and 2003–2018 were determined. Insect pest attacks have declined sharply in the last sixteen years- in coniferous forests they have decreased three times and in deciduous ...
Gergana Zaemdzhikova
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Combining phytochemicals and multitrophic interactions to control forest insect pests

open access: hybridCurrent Opinion in Insect Science, 2021
Forest pests can cause massive ecological and economic damage worldwide. Ecologically sound solutions to diminish forest insect pest impacts include the use of their natural enemies, such as predators and parasitoids, as well as entomopathogenic fungi, bacteria or viruses.
Fernandez-Conradi, Pilar   +3 more
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Development of monitoring methods for Hemlock Woolly Adelgid induced tree mortality within a Southern Appalachian landscape with inhibited access [PDF]

open access: yesiForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2016
Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae Annand, HWA) is an introduced invasive forest pest in eastern North America. Herbivory by this insect results in mortality to eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis L.
Kantola T   +5 more
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Excursion "Insects – pests of the forest"

open access: green, 2019
Zoological excursions are of great educational value, as they provide an opportunity to get more closely acquainted with the animal world and observe animals both in nature in a natural setting and in the human economy. This paper shows the example of insects - pests of the forest.
Lazarev Maxim
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Evolutionarily conserved odorant-binding proteins participate in establishing tritrophic interactions

open access: yesiScience, 2022
Summary: Attracting herbivores and their natural enemies is a standard method where plant volatiles mediate tritrophic interactions. However, it remains unknown whether the shared attraction has a shared chemosensory basis.
Ruinan Yang   +3 more
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In addition to cryptochrome 2, magnetic particles with olfactory co-receptor are important for magnetic orientation in termites

open access: yesCommunications Biology, 2021
Gao et al. analyze the role of magnetoreceptor candidates cryptochrome 2 (Cry2), magnetic particles and olfactory coreceptor (Orco) in magnetic orientation in two termite species.
Yongyong Gao   +4 more
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Effects of different tea plantation management systems on arthropod assemblages and network structure

open access: yesEcosphere, 2021
Tea plantations are intensive monocultures and vulnerable to various pests due to a low diversity of natural enemies. In ancient tea plantations, the trees have grown for hundreds of years in mixed stands with many native trees, resulting in a landscape ...
Yuanyuan Meng   +6 more
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