A highly aggregated geographical distribution of forest pest invasions in the USA

By Andrew M. Liebhold, D. McCullough, Laura M. L. Blackburn, S. Frankel, B. von Holle, J. Aukema. 2013

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Geographical variation in numbers of established non‐native species provides clues to the underlying processes driving biological invasions. Specifically, this variation reflects landscape characteristics that drive non‐native species arrival, establishment and spread. Here, we investigate spatial variation in damaging non‐native forest insect and pathogen species to draw inferences about the dominant processes influencing their arrival, establishment and spread.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science

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Urban trees: bridge-heads for forest pest invasions and sentinels for early detection (2017, unknown): “There is concern that the entire Fraxinus genus may be functionally lost from forests across the continent as a consequence of this invasion (Liebhold et al. 2013).”
Ecology of forest insect invasions (2017, background): “Liebhold et al. (2013) suggested that this pattern is the combined effect of historically higher propagule pressure in this region, along with greater diversity of tree species thus increasing the likelihood that European and Asian insect species may find a suitable host.”
Forest biodiversity, ecosystem functioning and the provision of ecosystem services (2017, background): “(Liebhold et al. 2013), although that study assessed larger-scale county-level data that are not directly comparable with plot-level data.”