Mountain pine beetle and forest carbon feedback to climate change

By W. Kurz, C. Dymond, G. Stinson, G. Rampley, E. Neilson, A. Carroll, T. Ebata, L. Safranyik. Nature, 2008

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Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests (2020, background): “However, forests are already facing substantial and increasing climate-driven risks that could fundamentally undermine their collective ability to take up and store carbon over the 21st century (19, 22, 34, 35).”
Using UAV-Based Photogrammetry and Hyperspectral Imaging for Mapping Bark Beetle Damage at Tree-Level (2015, background): “This climate-driven phenomenon has already been evident with pine sawflies [2,3], moths [4,5] and bark beetles [6,7].”
Merging DNA metabarcoding and ecological network analysis to understand and build resilient terrestrial ecosystems (2016, background): “…resilience of forests (i.e. the 106 capacity of a forest to withstand and absorb external pressures and return, over time, to its pre-107 disturbance state) is of major policy relevance (Thompson 2009), especially in the face of 108 invasive species, pathogens and climate change (Kurz et al. 2008).”
Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “reasons for concern” (2009, background): “(13) found that outbreaks of mountain pine beetle in British Columbia linked to climate change have resulted in net loss of forest biomass.”
Recent changes in phenology over the northern high latitudes detected from multi-satellite data (2011, background): “Recently, however, a number of new studies indicate more complex trends of vegetation productivity due to increases in disturbances partly exacerbated by climate change, such as insect defoliation and fires (Westerling et al 2006, Kurz et al 2008).”
Modelling the potential impact of global warming on Ips typographus voltinism and reproductive diapause (2011, background): “2007), including major pest species that can have dramatic effects on forest ecosystems (Carroll et al. 2003; Hagen et al. 2007; Kurz et al. 2008; Vanhanen et al. 2007).”
A review of semiochemicals associated with bark beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) pests of coniferous trees: A focus on beetle interactions with other pests and their associates (2013, background): “…et al., 2008; Carnegie, 2008; Ivković et al., 2010; Kausrud et al., 2012; Marini et al., 2012; Simard et al., 2012) and can have significant adverse effects on nutrient cycling, water quality and quantity, carbon sequestration, and biodiversity (Ayres and Lombardero, 2000; Kurz et al., 2008).”
How climate extremes—not means—define a species' geographic range boundary via a demographic tipping point (2014, background): “A similar mechanism was invoked to explain widespread mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks in British Columbia (Kurz et al. 2008), and northern range expansion of the pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Battisti et al. 2005) and the winter moth Operophtera brumata…”
High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change (2013, background): “The intermountain West of North America exhibits a loss dynamic, largely due to fire, logging, and disease [for example, large-scale tree mortality due to mountain pine bark beetle infestation, most evident in British Colombia, Canada (9)].”
Climate change and forest diseases (2011, background): “Recent extensive tree death events in North America have been associated with climate change (Kurz et al., 2008; van Mantgem et al., 2009).”