Southern
Research Station

Featured Publications and Products

• Grant, Jerome F.; Hakeem, Abdul; Lambdin, Paris L.; Wiggins, Gregory J.; Rhea, Rusty J. 2011. Whole-tree canopy enclosures: why cage a tree?.
• Grant, Jerome F.; Rhea, James Rusty; Lambdin, Paris; Wiggins, Greg; Hakeem, Abdul. 2009. Why cage a tree? Use of whole-tree enclosures to assess introduced predators of hemlock woolly adelgid, Adelges tsugae.
• Jetton, Robert; Dvorak, William; Whittier, Andrew; Potter, Kevin; Rhea, Rusty. 2009. Genetics and conservation of hemlock species threatened by the hemlock woolly adelgid.

Publications

• Mayfield, A.E. , II.; S.M. Salom, ; K. Sumpter, ; T. McAvoy, ; N.F. Schneeberger, ; R. Rhea., . 2020. Integrating chemical and biological control of the hemlock woolly adelgid: a resource manager’s guide.
• Salom, Scott M.; Davis, Gina ; Elkinton, Joseph ; Foley, Jeremiah ; Havill, Nathan ; Jubb, Carrie ; Mayfield, Albert ; McAvoy, Tom ; Rhea, Rusty ; Talbot Trotter, R. ; Whitmore, Mark . 2019. A response to "Media representation of hemlock woolly adelgid management risks: a case study of science communication and invasive species control," published in biological invasions online on September 18, 2018.
• Brantley, Steven T.; Mayfield, Albert (Bud); Jetton, Robert M.; Miniat, Chelcy F.; Zietlow, David R.; Brown, Cindi L.; Rhea, Rusty. 2017. Elevated light levels reduce hemlock woolly adelgid infestation and improve carbon balance of infested eastern hemlock seedlings.
• Wiggins, Gregory J.; Grant, Jerome F.; Rhea, Rusty; Mayfield, Albert (Bud); Hakeem, Abdul; Lambdin, Paris L.; Galloway, A. B. Lamb. 2016. Emergence, seasonality, and hybridization of Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae), an introduced predator of hemlock woolly adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae), in the Tennessee Appalachians.
• Miniat, Chelcy F.; Zeitlow, David; Brantley, Steven T.; Mayfield, Albert (Bud); Rhea, Rusty; Jetton, Robert; Arnold, Paul. . 2016. Physiological responses of eastern hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis) to biological control and silvicultural release: implications for hemlock restoration.
• McDonald, Kelly; Seiler, John; Salom, Scott; Rhea, Rusty. 2015. Physiological decline and recovery of eastern hemlock to hemlock woolly adelgid.
• Potter, Kevin M.; Jetton, Robert M.; Dvorak, William S.; Hipkins, Valerie D.; Rhea, Rusty; Whittier, W. Andrew. 2012. Widespread inbreeding and unexpected geographic patterns of genetic variation in eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis), an imperiled North American conifer.