Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States

By Thomas E. Kolb, C. Fettig, M. Ayres, B. Bentz, Jeffrey A. Hicke, R. Mathiasen, J. Stewart, Aaron S. Weed. 2016

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Subfields: Ecology, Endocrinology, Insect Science

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Ips typographus and Dendroctonus ponderosae Models Project Thermal Suitability for Intra- and Inter-Continental Establishment in a Changing Climate (2019, background): “Due to thermally-dependent fitness traits and positive responses to drought-induced tree stress, population activity has increased recently with a changing climate (Weed et al., 2015; Kolb et al., 2016; Marini et al., 2017; Senf and Seidl, 2018).”
Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality (2018, background): “These interactions are poised to increase with increasing rates of the introduction of non-native insects and diseases (Aukema et al 2010) and climate change-associated increases in bark beetle pressure (Kolb et al 2016).”
Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests (2020, background): “Drought stresses host trees, thereby decreasing defenses, altering foliage quality, and leaving trees more susceptible to attack (74).”
Insect Declines in the Anthropocene. (2020, background): “Chronic drought can stress plants and make them more susceptible to attack by insect pests and diseases (97).”
Which trees die during drought? The key role of insect host‐tree selection (2019, background): “…in light of increasing reports of damaging insect outbreaks—often associated with novel environ - mental conditions, including hotter droughts—by native species that previously were considered to be innocuous (Haavik, Billings, Guldin, & Stephen, 2015; Kolb et al., 2016; Weed et al., 2013).”