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Coding and Non-coding RNAs: Molecular Basis of Forest-Insect Outbreaks [PDF]
Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, 2020 Insect population dynamics are closely related to ‘human’ ecological and economic environments, and a central focus of research is outbreaks. However, the lack of molecular-based investigations restricts our understanding of the intrinsic mechanisms ...
Sufang Zhang +5 more
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A Holocene landscape dynamic multiproxy reconstruction: How do interactions between fire and insect outbreaks shape an ecosystem over long time scales? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 At a multi-millennial scale, various disturbances shape boreal forest stand mosaics and the distribution of species. Despite the importance of such disturbances, there is a lack of studies focused on the long-term dynamics of spruce budworm ...
Lionel Navarro +4 more
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Defoliation-induced changes in foliage quality may trigger broad-scale insect outbreaks [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2022 Progression of a spruce budworm outbreak over seven years is associated with increased soil nutrient fluxes and availability and improved foliage quality in surviving host trees. This could create a bottom-up feedback that sustains an insect outbreak.
Louis De Grandpré +9 more
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Stability and Optimal Control of Tree-Insect Model under Forest Fire Disturbance
Mathematics, 2022 In this article, we propose a mathematical model for insect outbreaks coupled with wildfire disturbances and an optimization model for finding suitable wildfire frequencies.
Xiaoxiao Liu, Chunrui Zhang
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Entomological Communications, 2023 Population outbreaks, although rare, hold significant ecological implications, particularly in short-lived organisms. These outbreaks are often triggered by changes in population control factors such as food availability, absence or reduction of natural ...
Helena Negrao +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Global warming has compelled to strengthen the resilience of European forests. Due to repeated droughts and heatwaves, weakened trees become vulnerable to insect outbreaks, pathogen invasions, and strong winds.
Dominika Łuców +10 more
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Spatial Pattern of Attacks of the Invasive Woodwasp Sirex noctilio, at Landscape and Stand Scales. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Invasive insect pests are responsible for important damage to native and plantation forests, when population outbreaks occur. Understanding the spatial pattern of attacks by forest pest populations is essential to improve our understanding of insect ...
M Victoria Lantschner, Juan C Corley
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Remote Sensing, 2023 Outbreaks of the Ormiscodes amphimone moth are among the largest biotic disturbances in South America, defoliating vast areas of native Nothofagus pumilio forests in the Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia in the last decade.
Sergio A. Estay +5 more
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A Secret Hidden in the Sediments: Lepidoptera Scales
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 Natural disturbance is one of the major topics in forest ecology. However, most paleoecological studies have only considered the influence of wildfire as an agent of disturbance, with fire history based primarily on the use of charcoal as a proxy for ...
Miguel Montoro Girona +3 more
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Biotic stress accelerates formation of climate-relevant aerosols in boreal forests [PDF]
Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2015 Boreal forests are a major source of climate-relevant biogenic secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) and will be greatly influenced by increasing temperature.
J. Joutsensaari +13 more
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