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Fig. 2 in Community structure of termites in a hill dipterocarp forest of Belum- Temengor Forest Complex, Malaysia: emergence of pest species
Fig. 2. The composition of termite assemblages in the natural forest and disturbed forest areas of the Belum–Temengor Forest Complex.
Fig. 1 in Community structure of termites in a hill dipterocarp forest of Belum- Temengor Forest Complex, Malaysia: emergence of pest species
Fig. 1. Map of Belum–Temengor Forest Complex and location of study sites. Sites: SK = Sungai [=River] Kejar; SM = Sungai Mes; ST = Sungai Telang; SG = Sungai Gadong; SKJBC = Sungai Kejar Base Camp; SKNBC = Sungai Kenarong Base Camp; PB = Pulau [=Island] Bendong; PP = Pulau Pertanian.
Fig. 3 in Community structure of termites in a hill dipterocarp forest of Belum- Temengor Forest Complex, Malaysia: emergence of pest species
Fig. 3. The different compositions of termite feeding groups in natural forest and disturbed forest areas within the Belum–Temengor Forest Complex.
Data from: Effect of a severe cold spell on overwintering survival of an invasive forest insect pest
<p>Data from a study of a servere cold event in February 2023 on the survival of hemlock woolly adelgid (<em>Adelges tsugae</em> Annand) from four populations in Canada. Cold temperatures can play a significant role in the range and impact of pest insects. Severe cold events can reduce the size of insect outbreaks or in some cases even cause outbreaks to end. Measuring the precise impact of cold events, however, can be difficult because estimates of insect mortality are often made at the end of the winter season. In late January, 2023 long-term climate models predicted a significant cold event to occur over eastern North America. We used this event to evaluate the immediate impact on hemlock woolly adelgid overwintering mortality at four sites on the northern edge of the insects invaded range in eastern North America. We observed complete mortality, partial mortality and no effect of the cold event that correlated with the location and strength of the cold event. Our data also showed lack of support for preconditioning of overwintering adelgids as impacting their overwintering survival following this severe cold event. Finally, we compared the climatic conditions at our sites to historical weather data. The cold event observed in February 2023 resulted in the coldest temperatures observed at these sites, including the period within which hemlock woolly adelgid invaded these sites, suggesting cold conditions, especially under anthropogenic climate forcing, may not be a limiting factor in determining the ultimate northern range of hemlock woolly adelgid in eastern North America.</p>
Data from: Higher avian biodiversity, increased shrub cover, and proximity to continuous forest may reduce pest insect crop loss in small-scale oil palm farming
<p>One of the key ecosystem services offered by avian biodiversity within agricultural landscapes is natural predation. Nonetheless, the current use of biological control agents such as farmland birds in oil palm plantations is relatively limited. The present study aimed to assess the potential roles of avian biodiversity, particularly insectivores which provide natural predation against oil palm herbivorous insects. We also investigated the influence of local- and landscape-scale variables on foliage damage (crown or frond). Our data showed that crown damage decreased with increasing farmland bird richness (overall and insectivore), shrub cover, dried biomass, and elevation, but increased with epiphyte cover, oil palm height, and distance to continuous forest. Frond damage was negatively related to bird richness (overall, insectivore, and non-insectivore) and non-insectivore abundance, elevation, and shrub cover, while increased with insectivorous abundance, epiphyte cover, oil palm height, and distance to continuous forest. We also found that plantations (≥ 50 ha) were more susceptible to foliage damage from pest insects than smallholdings (<50 ha). There was no evidence that indicated the influence of forest patches on foliage damage. Our study highlights the economic value of conserving biodiversity, most notably, farmland birds and continuous forests with respect to biological control of defoliating pests and maintaining yield productivity in oil palm cultivation. Growers, particularly major plantation companies should make oil palm farming more biodiversity-friendly in order to increase the number of biological control agents such as birds.</p>
Climate-related adaptation of metabolic rate across the distribution of a broadly tolerant invasive forest pest
<p>Metabolic rate is a widely-studied physiological species trait related to energetics, climate, and geographic distributions. Hypotheses have been proposed to explain variation in metabolic rate, but evidence has been mixed due to the limited sampling scope of intraspecific studies. Successful biological invasions offer a unique opportunity to examine the development of intraspecific physiological variation and how it relates to climate, invasive spread, and species range limits. Here we conducted a macro-scale study of routine metabolic rate variation across the Spongy moth (<em>Lymantria dispar</em>) invasive range in North America. We found a positive latitudinal cline with population-specific metabolic rates increasing from the southern range to the north that was significantly related to climate. Our comprehensive macrophysiological analyses provide further evidence that local adaptation of physiological and life history traits to climate has played a significant role in the spread of <em>L. dipsar</em> across the landscape in the past 150 years.</p>
Data from: Effect of a severe cold spell on overwintering survival of an invasive forest insect pest
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Data from: Requirement of group I lytic polysaccharide monooxygenase for turnover of chitinous cuticle during molting in two forest pest beetles, <em>Monochamus alternatus</em> and <em>Psacothea hilaris</em>
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Data from: Higher avian biodiversity, increased shrub cover, and proximity to continuous forest may reduce pest insect crop loss in small-scale oil palm farming
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Data from: Meteorological versus spatial drivers of the spatial synchrony of forest insect pest outbreaks in North America
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Data from: How do global forest pests respond to increasing temperatures?
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Data from: Can novel pest outbreaks drive ecosystem transitions in northern-boreal birch forest?
1. The boreal biome exhibits distinct alternative ecosystem states with high and low levels of tree-cover. Insect outbreaks facilitated by climate warming could potentially drive transitions from high to low tree-cover states. We investigated whether two key premises for such outbreak-induced transitions – critical thresholds (tipping points) and positive feedbacks that could maintain alternative states – are present in the northern-boreal mountain birch forest of Fennoscandia. Here, climate warming has promoted range expansions of defoliating geometrid moths, resulting in novel, severe multispecies outbreaks, most recently during 2002-2010. 2. We conducted regional-scale field surveys of forest damage and recovery in 280 mountain birch stands in a northeast Norway immediately after the outbreak (2010) and six years later (2016). Satellite-derived time series of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) provided an index of stand defoliation during the outbreak period. 3. The proportion of dead stems per stand displayed a bimodal distribution, with stands generally being either lightly or severely damaged. This was due to a critical threshold in the relationship between defoliation and stem mortality, with mortality rates increasing abruptly in stands experiencing a mean drop in NDVI of more than 4 % during the outbreak. The two key forest regenerative pathways – basal sprouting and sapling production – both displayed positive feedbacks with surviving stems and trees, so that regeneration success declined with increasing damage to the mature tree layer. These feedbacks imply that stands which have been forced across critical defoliation thresholds and suffered collapses of living tree cover may struggle to recover, especially if the loss of positive regenerative feedbacks is compounded by ungulate browsing on birch recruits. 4. Synthesis. The north Fennoscandian mountain birch forest displays critical thresholds and positive feedbacks that conform to theoretical expectations for a system that could be vulnerable to abrupt and persistent changes of state in the face of novel, climatically facilitated insect outbreaks. These findings deepen the understanding of the persistent losses of tree-cover that have occasionally been observed after outbreaks in this system in the past, and adds to the list of mechanisms that could help explain the bistability of tree-cover across the boreal biome.
Data from: Forest restoration as a double-edged sword: the conflict between biodiversity conservation and pest control
1. Forestry has markedly changed a large proportion of the world's boreal forests, often with negative effects on biodiversity. As a result, forest restoration is increasingly implemented to counteract the negative effects. However, restoration measures aimed at mimicking natural disturbance regimes could simultaneously increase the risk of unwanted negative effects, such as damage by forest pest species. This study compares the effect of two restoration methods (prescribed burning and gap-cutting), on both biodiversity conservation and pest control, to provide a basis for solutions to this potential conflict. 2. Bark beetles are ideal for studying this conflict, as this group is both species-rich and contains notorious pest species. We conducted a unique, large-scale field experiment in which we compared the effect of two different restoration methods on the abundance, species richness and assemblage composition of bark beetles. In addition, we estimated uncontrolled tree mortality by the number of trees that died post-restoration. 3. Beetles were divided in two groups, primary and secondary, the former with an ability to kill growing trees. Bark beetle diversity did not differ between treatment groups prior to restoration. However, after restoration, assemblage composition and primary bark beetle abundance differed between the treatments. Furthermore, species richness was higher in burned and gap-cut stands compared to reference stands. 4. The number of trees that died post-restoration was highest on burned sites, whereas no difference was found between gap-cut and reference stands. The number of dead trees was correlated with the number of primary beetles. 5. Synthesis and applications. We demonstrate the potential for a conflict between forest restoration for biodiversity conservation and the potential risk for tree mortality caused by forest pests. This is likely to become a problem in many boreal forests; however, our results suggest that this conflict can be moderated by the choice of restoration method. The restoration method gap-cutting had a similar positive impact on bark beetle species richness as compared to the burning method, but did not as burning increase tree mortality. Thus, in areas where there is an apparent risk for pest outbreaks, our data suggest that gap-cutting should be the chosen method to avoid an unwanted increase in tree mortality at the stand level. 13-Mar-2017
Fig. 2 in Inferring Ancestry and Divergence Events in a Forest Pest Using Low-Density Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Fig. 2. Population tree inferred by TreeMix using all 42 sampling sites across the mountain pine beetle range. Terminal branches are labeled using locality information (see Supp Fig. 1 [online only] for further detail) and migration arrows are colored according to migration weight.
Fig. 3. Scenario 9 in Inferring Ancestry and Divergence Events in a Forest Pest Using Low-Density Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Fig. 3. Scenario 9 was identified as the 'best' from 11 competing phylogeographic scenarios. This scenario represents an east-to-west colonization route with stable population sizes in which cluster 4 is derived from clusters 1 and 3 through admixture. Terminal branch labels are consistent with the five STRUCTURE clusters identified (Fig. 1). T = time expressed as number of generations assuming one generation per year; R = inferred migration rate.
Fig. 1 in Inferring Ancestry and Divergence Events in a Forest Pest Using Low-Density Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms
Fig. 1. Map of mountain pine beetle sites throughout western North America. Each site is represented by a pie chart depicting the average assignment (Q values) of individuals to one of five STRUCTURE clusters (K = 5).
Supplementary material 1 from: Bowser ML, Burr SJ, Davis I, Dubois GD, Graham EE, Moan JE, Swenson SW (2019) A test of metabarcoding for Early Detection and Rapid Response monitoring for non-native forest pest beetles (Coleoptera). Research Ideas and Outcomes 5: e48536. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.5.e48536
This file contains the specimen data from the original trap samples, morphological identifications, molecular identifications, and resulting occurrence data.
Data from: Predicting the spread of all invasive forest pests in the United States
We tested whether a general spread model could capture macroecological patterns across all damaging invasive forest pests in the United States. We showed that a common constant dispersal kernel model, simulated from the discovery date, explained 67.94% of the variation in range size across all pests, and had 68.00% locational accuracy between predicted and observed locational distributions. Further, by making dispersal a function of forest area and human population density, variation explained increased to 75.60%, with 74.30% accuracy. These results indicated that a single general dispersal kernel model was sufficient to predict the majority of variation in extent and locational distribution across pest species and that proxies of propagule pressure and habitat invasibility – well-studied predictors of establishment – should also be applied to the dispersal stage. This model provides a key element to forecast novel invaders and to extend pathway-level risk analyses to include spread.
Supplementary material 7 from: Muller E, Dvořák M, Marçais B, Caeiro E, Clot B, Desprez-Loustau M-L, Gedda B, Lundén K, Migliorini D, Oliver G, Ramos AP, Rigling D, Rybníček O, Santini A, Schneider S, Stenlid J, Tedeschini E, Aguayo J, Gomez-Gallego M (2023) Conditions of emergence of the Sooty Bark Disease and aerobiology of Cryptostroma corticale in Europe. In: Jactel H, Orazio C, Robinet C, Douma JC, Santini A, Battisti A, Branco M, Seehausen L, Kenis M (Eds) Conceptual and technical innovations to better manage invasions of alien pests and pathogens in forests. NeoBiota 84: 319-347. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.84.90549
Coefficient estimate for each variable of maple basal area computed for different radius and their 95% credible intervals in brackets for models predicting the number of spores detected per week
Supplementary material 3 from: Muller E, Dvořák M, Marçais B, Caeiro E, Clot B, Desprez-Loustau M-L, Gedda B, Lundén K, Migliorini D, Oliver G, Ramos AP, Rigling D, Rybníček O, Santini A, Schneider S, Stenlid J, Tedeschini E, Aguayo J, Gomez-Gallego M (2023) Conditions of emergence of the Sooty Bark Disease and aerobiology of Cryptostroma corticale in Europe. In: Jactel H, Orazio C, Robinet C, Douma JC, Santini A, Battisti A, Branco M, Seehausen L, Kenis M (Eds) Conceptual and technical innovations to better manage invasions of alien pests and pathogens in forests. NeoBiota 84: 319-347. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.84.90549
Standard curve and its correlation coefficient to determine the limit of detection for the real-time PCR assay in ten-folded DNA solutions of C. corticale mycelium (a) and total number of spores in the qPCR reaction (b)
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