Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects

By B. Bentz, Jacques Régnière, C. Fettig, E. Hansen, J. L. Hayes, Jeffrey A. Hicke, R. Kelsey, J. Negrón, S. Seybold. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Insect Science

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Climate change and forest diseases (2011, background): “Disturbance agents such as pathogens, insects and fire can decrease the ability of forests to provide goods and services, especially when the natural disturbance patterns or regimes of these agents are altered by human activities (Lewis & Lindgren, 2000; Bentz et al., 2010).”
Spruce Beetle Biology, Ecology and Management in the Rocky Mountains: An Addendum to Spruce Beetle in the Rockies (2014, positive): “Weather-related mechanisms for example, directly affect spruce beetle population dynamics through the influence of temperature on cold tolerance (winter survival) and life history strategies that lead to the synchrony of population emergence [9,38,91], or indirectly by predisposing host trees to att”
Which trees die during drought? The key role of insect host‐tree selection (2019, background): “…insect (and probably pathogen) outbreaks are functions of complex interactions, thresholds and feedbacks among biotic and abiotic factors (Barbosa, Letourneau, & Agrawal, 2012; Bentz et al., 2010; Ferrenberg, 2016; Raffa et al., 2008; Rouault et al., 2006; Ryan, Sapes, Sala, & Hood, 2015).”
Interactive effects of anthropogenic nitrogen enrichment and climate change on terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity (2013, background): “A survey of remote arctic and alpine lakes of North America and Greenland found that diversity of algal diatom assemblages has changed in these regions more significantly in the twentieth century than in the previous 350 years.”
Management Strategies for Bark Beetles in Conifer Forests (2015, background): “However, many experts agree that anthropogenic-induced climate change has also contributed to some outbreaks due to shifts in temperature and precipitation that influence both the beetles and their hosts (Bentz et al., 2010; Sambaraju et al., 2012).”
Interactions among the Mountain Pine Beetle, Fires, and Fuels (2014, background): “In particular, recent outbreaks of MPBs have been severe, long lasting, and well documented (Bentz et al. 2009).”
Tree mortality following drought in the central and southern Sierra Nevada, California, U.S. (2019, background): “In most cases, the resultant tree mortality goes unnoticed until an outbreak occurs, which generally requires several years of favorable weather conducive to beetle survival and population growth, and an abundance of susceptible hosts (Bentz et al., 2010).”
The added complications of climate change: understanding and managing biodiversity and ecosystems (2013, positive): “The near-epidemic spread of pine and bark beetles in western US states (Bentz et al. 2010) and the northward expansion of the oyster diseases " MSX " and " dermo " to Nova Scotia (Ford and Smolowitz 2007) may also be linked to climate.”
Shifting Climate, Altered Niche, and a Dynamic Conservation Strategy for Yellow-Cedar in the North Pacific Coastal Rainforest (2012, background): “…responses to climate change may appear as visible, extensive tree death expressed as forest declines (Sturrock et al. 2011) and insect outbreaks (Benz et al. 2010), or they may be detected in more subtle forms, such as changes in tree competitiveness and reproduction BioScience 62: 147–158.”
Impacts of climate change on plant diseases—opinions and trends (2012, background): “In North America, the temperature increase is expected to be greater than the global average, particularly in boreal and mountainous regions (Bentz et al. 2010).”