Conventional wisdom suggests that large scale bark beetle outbreaks alter fuel complexes resulting in an increased potential for severe fires. Conversely, fires damage trees that may predispose them to bark beetle attack. In reality there is little specific quantified data supporting these assertions, and until recently, relationships between fire and western bark beetles in forests of North America have not been extensively studied. The magnitude of recent outbreaks and large wildfires has resulted in a flurry of research attempting to quantify bark beetle/fire/fuel interactions.
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2016
Mountain Pine Beetle Dynamics and Reproductive Success in Post-Fire Lodgepole and Ponderosa Pine Forests in Northeastern Utah, Andrew P. Lerch, Jesse A. Pfammatter, Barbara J. Bentz, and Kenneth F. Raffa; Plos One
Fallen Trees’ Last Stand Against Bark Beetles, Marceau Louis, Loic Dohet, and Jean-Claude Gregoire; Forest Ecology and Management
Carbon Isotopic Composition of Forest Soil Respiration in the Decade Following Bark Beetle and Stem Girdling Disturbances in the Rocky Mountains, Gregory E. Maurer, Allison M. Chan, Nicole A. Trahan, David J.P. Moore, and David R. Bowling; Plant, Cell & Environment
Relative Importance of Climate and Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks on the Occurrence of Large Wildfires in the Western USA, Nathan Mietkiewicz and Dominik Kulakowski; Ecological Applications
Variables Associated With the Occurrence of Ips Beetles, Red Turpentine Beetle and Wood Borers in Live and Dead Ponderosa Pines with Post-fire Injury, Jose F. Negron, Joel McMillin, Linda L. Wadleigh, John A. Anhold, and Ken E. Gibson; Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Assessing Spatiotemporal Relationships Between Wildfire and Mountain Pine Beetle Disturbances Across Multiple Time Lags, Michael F. Nelson, Mark Ciochina, and Christopher Bone; Ecosphere
Forest Composition Change After a Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak, Rocky Mountain National Park, Carlyn Perovich and Jason S. Sibold; Forest Ecology and Managment
Bark and Ambrosia Beetles Show Different Invasion Patterns in the USA, Davide Rassati, Massimo Faccolli, Robert A. Hacke, Robert A. Haack, Robert J. Rabaglia, and Edoardo Petrucco Toffolo; PLOS One
Spatial Variability in Tree Regeneration After Wildfire Delays and Dampens Future Bark Beetle Outbreaks, Rupert Seidl, Daniel C. Donato, Kenneth F. Raffa, and Monica G. Turner; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Small Beetle, Large-scale Drivers: How Regional and Landscape Factors Affect Outbreaks of the European Spruce Bark Beetle, Rupert Seidl, Jeorg Mueller, Hothorn T. Hothorn, Claus Baessler, Marco Heurich, and Markus Kautz; Journal of Applied Ecology
Impacts of Management on Mountain Pine Beetle Spread and Damage: A Process-rich Model, S. Strohm, M. L. Reid, and R. C. Tyson; Ecological Modelling
Prescribed Fire Does Not Promote Outbreaks of a Primary Bark Beetle at Low-density Populations, Crisia Alexandra Tabacaru, Jane Park, and Nadir Erbilgin; Journal of Applied Ecology
The (W)hole Story: Facilitation of Dead Wood Fauna by Bark Beetles?, Juan Zuo, Johannes H. C. Cornelissen, Mariet M. Hefting, Ute Sass-Klaassen, Richard S. P. van Logtesijn, Jugen van Hal, Leo Goudzwaard, Jin C. Liu, and Matty P. Berg; Soil Biology and Biochemistry
2015
Does Soil Respiration Decline Following Bark Beetle Induced Forest Mortality? Evidence from a Lodgepole Pine Forest, B. Borkhuu, S. D. Peckama, B. E. Ewersa, U. Norton, and E. Pendalla; Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Limber Pine in the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains: Stand Conditions and Interactions with Blister Rust, Mistletoe, and Bark Beetles, Christy M. Cleaver, William R. Jocobi, Kelly S. Burns, and Robert E. Means; Forest Ecology and Management
Small Changes in Species Composition Despite Stand-Replacing Bark Beetle Outbreak in Picea abies Mountain Forests, Anton Fischer, Hagen S. Fischer, Martin Kopecky, Martin Macek, and Jan Wild
Large Carbon Release Legacy from Bark Beetle Outbreaks Across Western United States, Bardan Ghimire, Christopher A. Williams, G James Collatz, Melanie Vanderhoof, John Rogan, Dominik Kulakowski, and Jeffrey G. Masek; Global Change Biology
Mountain Pine Beetle use Volatile Cues to Locate Host Limber Pine and Avoid Non-host Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, C. A. Gray, J. B. Runyon, M. J. Jenkins, and A. D. Giunta; PLOSOne
Fuel Loads and Simulated Fire Behavior in “Old Stage” Beetle-Infested Ponderosa Pine of the Colorado Plateau, E. Mathew Hansen, M. C. Johnson, Barbara J. Bentz, J. C. Vandygriff, and A. Steven Munson; Forest Science
Negative Feedbacks on Bark Beetle Outbreaks: Widespread and Severe Spruce Beetle Infestation Restricts Subsequent Infestation, Sarah J. Hart, Thomas T. Veblen, Nathan Mietkiewicz, and Dominik Kulakowski; PLOS ONE
Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Wind Flow and Potential Fire Behavior Following a Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak in a Lodgepole Pine Forest, C. M. Hoffman, R. R. Linn, R. Parsons, C. H. Sieg, and J. L. Winterkamp; Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Low-Severity Fire Increases Tree Defense Against Bark Beetle Attacks, Sharon Hood, Anna Sala, Emily K. Heyerdahl, and Marion Boutin; Ecology
Exploring Interactions Among Multiple Disturbance Agents in Forest Landscapes: Simulating Effects of Fire, Beetles, and Disease Under Climate Change, Robert E. Keane, Rachel Loehman, Jason Clark, Erica A.H. Smithwick, and Carol Miller; Simulation Modeling of Forest Landscape Disturbances
Catchment Response to Bark Beetle Outbreak and Dust-on-Snow in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, Ben Livneh, Jeffrey S. Deems, Brian Buma, Joseph J. Barsugli, Dominik Schneider, Noah P. Molotch, K Wolter, and Carol A. Wessman; Journal of Hydrology
Do Water-Limiting Conditions Predispose Norway Spruce to Bark Beetle Attack?, Sigrid Netherer, Bradley Matthews, Klaus Katzensteiner, Emma Blackwell, Patrick Henschke, Peter Hietz, Josef Pennerstorfer, Sabine Rosner, Silvia Kikuta, Helmut Schume, and Axel Schopf; New Phytologist