[HTML][HTML] Forest insects and climate change

DS Pureswaran, A Roques, A Battisti - Current Forestry Reports, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Climate change affects populations of forest insect pests in a
number of ways. We reviewed the most recent literature (2013–2017) on this subject …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonality of forest insects: why diapause matters

M Schebeck, P Lehmann, M Laparie, BJ Bentz… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Insects have major impacts on forest ecosystems, from herbivory and soil-nutrient cycling to
killing trees at a large scale. Forest insects from temperate, tropical, and subtropical regions …

Confronting the cycle synchronisation paradigm of defoliator outbreaks in space and time—Evidence from two systems in a mixed‐species forest landscape

BJ Cooke, LE Robert, BR Sturtevant… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Defoliators cause extensive damage in boreal and temperate forests of the world.
Considerable effort has been invested to understand their individual population dynamics …

[HTML][HTML] Water stress limits transpiration and growth of European larch up to the lower subalpine belt in an inner‐alpine dry valley

N Obojes, A Meurer, C Newesely, E Tasser… - The New …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Water stress limits transpiration and growth of European larch up to the lower subalpine belt in
an inner‐alpine dry valley - PMC Back to Top Skip to main content NIH NLM Logo Access keys …

[HTML][HTML] Return of the moth: rethinking the effect of climate on insect outbreaks

U Büntgen, A Liebhold, D Nievergelt, B Wermelinger… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
The sudden interruption of recurring larch budmoth (LBM; Zeiraphera diniana or griseana
Gn.) outbreaks across the European Alps after 1982 was surprising, because populations …

[HTML][HTML] Climate warming differently affects Larix decidua ring formation at each end of a French Alps elevational gradient

P Rozenberg, T Chauvin, M Escobar-Sandoval… - Annals of Forest …, 2020 - Springer
Key message The ongoing global warming tends to reduce Larix decidua radial growth and
ring wood density at the bottom of an elevational gradient in the French Alps, while it has a …

Tree-ring isotopes from the Swiss Alps reveal non-climatic fingerprints of cyclic insect population outbreaks over the past 700 years

V Vitali, RL Peters, MM Lehmann… - Tree …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Recent experiments have underlined the potential of δ2H in tree-ring cellulose as a
physiological indicator of shifts in autotrophic versus heterotrophic processes (ie, the use of …

Impacts of land-cover changes on snow avalanche activity in the French Alps

R Mainieri, A Favillier, J Lopez-Saez, N Eckert… - Anthropocene, 2020 - Elsevier
Dendrogeomorphic analyses provide long and continuous chronologies of mass
movements that are useful for the detection of trends related to climate change. Socio …

Tree-ring proxies of larch bud moth defoliation: latewood width and blue intensity are more precise than tree-ring width

E Arbellay, I Jarvis, RD Chavardès, LD Daniels… - Tree …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Reconstructions of defoliation by larch bud moth (LBM, Zeiraphera diniana Gn.) based on
European larch (Larix decidua Mill.) tree rings have unraveled outbreak patterns over …

Climate-growth relationships in a Larix decidua Mill. network in the French Alps

M Saulnier, C Corona, M Stoffel, F Guibal… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
A better understanding of the respective role of key climatic variables on tree growth is
crucial for an accurate assessment of how ongoing global changes may affect both …