Our mission: To provide the basic biological and ecological knowledge and innovative management strategies required for management and control of native and non-native insect pests, disease pathogens and invasive plants in changing forest ecosystems.
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Prevention is Key: Lessons from Laurel Wilt
Since 2002, forests in the southeastern U.S. have struggled against a disease called laurel wilt. In 18 years, laurel wilt has spread to 11 southeastern states and killed hundreds of millions of trees. A review article by USDA Forest Service scientist Rabiu Olatinwo reflects on the origins and spread of laurel wilt throughout the last several years.
Latest Publications
- The contribution of insects to global forest deadwood decomposition
Seibold, Sebastian; Rammer, Werner; Hothorn, Torsten; Seidl, Rupert; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Lorz, Janina; Cadotte, Marc W.; Lindenmayer, David B.; Adhikari, Yagya P.; Aragón, Roxana; Bae, Soyeon; Baldrian, Petr; Barimani Varandi, Hassan; Barlow, Jos; Bässler, Claus; Beauchêne, Jacques; Berenguer, Erika; Bergamin, Rodrigo S.; Birkemoe, Tone; Boros, Gergely; Brandl, Roland; Brustel, Hervé; Burton, Philip J.; Cakpo-Tossou, Yvonne T.; Castro, Jorge; Cateau, Eugénie; Cobb, Tyler P.; Farwig, Nina; Fernández, Romina D.; Firn, Jennifer; Gan, Kee Seng; González, Grizelle; Gossner, Martin M.; Habel, Jan C.; Hébert, Christian; Heibl, Christoph; Heikkala, Osmo; Hemp, Andreas; Hemp, Claudia; Hjältén, Joakim; Hotes, Stefan; Kouki, Jari; Lachat, Thibault; Liu, Jie; Liu, Yu; Luo, Ya-Huang; Macandog, Damasa M.; Martina, Pablo E.; Mukul, Sharif A.; Nachin, Baatarbileg; Nisbet, Kurtis; O’Halloran, John; Oxbrough, Anne; Pandey, Jeev Nath; Pavlíček, Tomáš; Pawson, Stephen M.; Rakotondranary, Jacques S.; Ramanamanjato, Jean-Baptiste; Rossi, Liana; Schmidl, Jürgen; Schulze, Mark; Seaton, Stephen; Stone, Marisa J.; Stork, Nigel E.; Suran, Byambagerel; Sverdrup-Thygeson, Anne; Thorn, Simon; Thyagarajan, Ganesh; Wardlaw, Timothy J.; Weisser, Wolfgang W.; Yoon, Sungsoo; Zhang, Naili; Müller, Jörg. - Strengthening the ties that bind: An evaluation of cross-disciplinary communication between invasion ecologists and biological control cesearchers in entomology
Schulz, Ashley N; Lucardi, Rima D; Marsico, Travis D. - Region-wide assessment of fine-scale associations between invasive plants and forest regeneration
Lázaro-Lobo, Adrián; Lucardi, Rima D.; Ramirez‐Reyes, Carlos; Ervin, Gary N. - Eastern white pine dieback in the Southern Appalachian Mountains
Whitney, T. D.; Schulz, Ashley N.; Asaro, Christopher;Cram, Michelle M.; Lucardi, Rima D.; McCarty, Eliaabeth P.; Gandhi, Kamal J. K. - Multivariate analysis of invasive plant species distributions in southern US forests
Lázaro-Lobo, Adrián; Ramirez-Reyes, Carlos; Lucardi, Rima D.; Ervin, Gary N.