Climate change creates new challenges for biodiversity conservation. Species ranges and
ecological dynamics are already responding to recent climate shifts, and current reserves …

The recent explosion of interest in DNA-based tools for species identification has prompted
widespread speculation on the future availability of inexpensive, rapid, and accurate means …

Reliable estimates of the impacts and costs of biological invasions are critical to develo**
credible management, trade and regulatory policies. Worldwide, forests and urban trees …

Forest degradation is broadly defined as a reduction in the capacity of a forest to produce
ecosystem services such as carbon storage and wood products as a result of anthropogenic …

Alien invasive insects such as gypsy moth, hemlock woolly adelgid, and emerald ash borer
continue to disturb the mixed deciduous and hemlock forests of eastern North America by …

Summary data are given for the 25 new species of exotic bark-and wood-boring Coleoptera
first reported in the continental United States between 1985 and 2005, including 2 …

The forests of eastern North America have been subjected to repeated introductions of
exotic insect pests and pathogens over the last century, and several new pests are currently …

Abstract Forests across the United States are expected to undergo numerous changes in
response to the changing climate. This second edition of the Forest Adaptation Resources …

Rust fungi are important components of ecological communities and in ecosystem function.
Their unique life strategies as biotrophic pathogens with complicated life cycles could make …

Abstract In 2002–2004, we examined the flight responses of 49 species of native and exotic
bark and ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Scolytidae and Platypodidae) to traps baited with …