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Application of semiochemicals to assess the biodiversity of subcortical insects following an ecosystem disturbance in a sub-boreal forest
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Year Published
2009
Publication
Journal of Chemical Ecology. 35: 1384-1410.
Abstract
From 2000 through 2003 we used semiochemical baited traps in northeastern Minnesota, USA, to assess changes in assemblages of subcortical forest insects after a catastrophic wind storm in 1999 and subsequent (1999-2000) fuel-reduction activities (salvage-logging and prescribed-burning). We determined the regional efficacy of fifteen semiochemical blends (pheromones and kairomones) as attractants for target and non-target subcortical insect species (Coleoptera: Anthribidae, Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Cleridae, Cucujidae, Curculionidae, Histeridae, Nemonychidae, Salpingidae, Scolytidae, Tenebrionidae, and Hymenoptera: Siricidae).
Keywords
Anthribidae; bark beetles; Betula papyrifera; biodiversity; Buprestidae; Cerambycidae; Cleridae; Coleoptera; Curculionidae; Dendroctonus rufipennis; Dendroctonus simplex; Dendroctonus valens; Dryocoetes autographus; Histeridae; host attractants; Hylurgops rugipennis pinifex; Ipsdienol; Ipsenol; Ips grandicollis; Ips perroti; Ips perturbatus; Ips pini; Kairomones; Minnesota; natural disturbances; Nemonychidae; pheromones; Picea glauca; Pinenes; Pinus banksiana; Populus tremuloides; predators; Salpingidae; Scolytidae; Sirex behrensii; Siricidae; semiochemicals; Tenebrionidae; wind-disturbance; woodborersCitation
Gandhi, K.J.K.; Gilmore, D.W.; Haack, R.A.; Katovich, S.A.; Krauth, S.J.; Mattson, W.J.; Zasada, J.C.; Seybold, S.J. 2009. Application of semiochemicals to assess the biodiversity of subcortical insects following an ecosystem disturbance in a sub-boreal forest