What causes outbreaks of the gypsy moth in North America?

By Andrew M. Liebhold, J. Elkinton, D. Williams, R. Muzika. Population Ecology, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Insect Science

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Quantifying predation on folivorous insect larvae: the perspective of life‐history evolution (2011, background): “…exploit folivorous larvae in temperate environments; mammals constitute a less important source of mortality (Campbell & Sloan, 1977; Cook, Hain & Smith, 1994; but see Liebhold et al., 2000; Kalka, Smith & Kalko, 2008; WilliamsGuillen, Perfecto & Vandermeer, 2008 for occasional importance of bats).”
Circumpolar variation in periodicity and synchrony among gypsy moth populations (2005, background): “1998; Liebhold et al. 2000).”
Masting and trophic cascades: interplay between rowan trees, apple fruit moth, and their parasitoid in southern Norway (2004, background): “The pulsed reproductive efforts may impact the dynamics of seed predators (Liebhold et al. 2000, Selås et al. 2001).”
Foraging ecology of black bears in urban environments: guidance for human‐bear conflict mitigation (2015, background): “But mast crops can fail due to unfavorable weather conditions, e.g., late-spring freezes and droughts (Sharp and Sprague 1967, Neilson and Wullstein 1980), or disease outbreaks (Liebhold et al. 2000), resulting in bears seeking alternative food sources (Baruch-Mordo et al. 2014).”
Emergent insects, pathogens and drought shape changing patterns in oak decline in North America and Europe (2015, background): “Factors that drive these cycles are not fully understood, but for some species, appear to be related to fluctuations in climate (Elkinton and Liebhold, 1990; Myers, 1998; Liebhold et al., 2000).”
Novel associations between pathogens, insects and tree species threaten world forests (2010, background): “Perhaps the best known of these is the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar L) that was accidentally introduced into North America more than a 100 years ago (Davidson et al., 1999; Liebhold et al., 2000) and has caused severe damage to native North American forests.”
Within-population spatial synchrony in mast seeding of North American oaks (2004, background): “Two possible (not mutually exclusive) causes for spatially extended synchrony in mast seeding are pollen movement (Isagi et al. 1997, Satake and Iwasa 2002a, b) and synchronous environmental forcing (the Moran (1953) effect; Piovesan and Adams 2001, Koenig 2002).”
Remote sensing of forest pest damage: a review and lessons learned from a Canadian perspective* (2016, background): “While almost exclusively a deciduous defoliator, the gypsy moth has an extremely wide host base consisting of several hundred different plant species (Liebhold et al. 2000).”
Spatial Synchrony in Population Dynamics (2004, background): “…in oaks lead to synchronous oscillations in small mammal populations; because small mammals are the dominant predators of low-density gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar, populations, their synchronous oscillations may result in synchronous moth oscillations (Ostfeld & Jones 1996, Liebhold et al. 2000).”
Natural enemies and environmental factors affecting the population dynamics of the gypsy moth (2013, background): “Many hypotheses have been proposed to explain this phenomenon, for example, maternal effects, changes in population genetics and the effects of host plant quality (Chitty 1967; Edelsteinkeshet and Rausher 1989; Ginzburg and Taneyhill 1994; Liebhold and Kamata 2000; Liebhold et al. 2000).”