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2012
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Christer MagnussonAbstract
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Christer MagnussonAbstract
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Arne Sæbø Robert Popek Barbara Nawrot Hans Martin Hanslin Helena Gawronska Stanislaw W GawronskiAbstract
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Gisela Lüscher Michaela Arndorfer Katalin Balázs K.G. Bernhardt M. Bogers R.G.H. Bunce J.-P. Choisis Peter Dennis Wenche E. Dramstad Sebastian Eiter Gunnar Engan Wendy Fjellstad T. Frank Jürgen Friedel Ilse Geijzendorffer P. Gillingham Felix Herzog K.-J. Hülsbergen Philippe Jeanneret G. Jerkovich Rob Jongman Maximilian Kainz M.L. Oschatz Susanne Papaja-Hülsbergen Philippe Pointereau Jean-Pierre Sarthou M.K. Schneider Norman Siebrecht Sebastian WolfrumAbstract
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Andreas TreuAbstract
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John Marshall Bryden Mildred E. WarnerAbstract
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Kyrre Linné Kausrud Bjørn Økland Olav Skarpaas Jean-Claude Grégoire Nadir Erbilgin Nils Christian StensethAbstract
In recent decades we have seen rapid and co-occurring changes in landscape structure, species distributions and even climate as consequences of human activity. Such changes affect the dynamics of the interaction between major forest pest species, such as bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae), and their host trees. Normally breeding mostly in broken or severely stressed spruce; at high population densities some bark beetle species can colonise and kill healthy trees on scales ranging from single trees in a stand to multi-annual landscape-wide outbreaks. In Eurasia, the largest outbreaks are caused by the spruce bark beetle, Ips typographus (Linnaeus), which is common and shares a wide distribution with its main host, Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.). A large literature is now available, from which this review aims to synthesize research relevant for the population dynamics of I. typographus and co-occurring species under changing conditions. We find that spruce bark beetle population dynamics tend to be metastable, but that mixed-species and age-heterogeneous forests with good site-matching tend to be less susceptible to large-scale outbreaks. While large accumulations of logs should be removed and/or debarked before the next swarming period, intensive removal of all coarse dead wood may be counterproductive, as it reduces the diversity of predators that in some areas may play a role in keeping I. typographus populations below the outbreak threshold, and sanitary logging frequently causes edge effects and root damage, reducing the resistance of remaining trees. It is very hard to predict the outcome of interspecific interactions due to invading beetle species or I. typographus establishing outside its current range, as they can be of varying sign and strength and may fluctuate depending on environmental factors and population phase. Most research indicates that beetle outbreaks will increase in frequency and magnitude as temperature, wind speed and precipitation variability increases, and that mitigating forestry practices should be adopted as soon as possible considering the time lags involved.
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