Long-Term and Seasonal Population Dynamics of Forest Insects at Climate Change
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 221
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Interests: forest entomology; seasonal development of insects; insect population dynamics; habitat preferences; alien forest insects; climate change; forest protection
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Interests: conservation biology; forest ecology; invasive species; IPM; sawflies; pathogens of bark beetles
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Interests: integrated forest management; forest health; forest protection; forest ecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate indicators affect the timing and rate of the seasonal development of trees, insects, and other poikilothermic organisms, and their survival, fertility (yield), and interaction with species of their own, and with other trophic levels. Phenological asynchrony between host trees, and herbivorous and entomophagous insects, may be of great importance in changing the dynamics of populations. These changes may depend on the biology of individual species (sites of hibernation, the presence of obligate or facultative diapause, and the ability to increase the number of generations). Changes in the seasonal dynamics of species may also affect the long-term dynamics of their outbreaks and the injuriousness of certain pests.
This Special Issue welcomes novel research focused on various aspects of phytophagous insect interaction with the forest environment, host trees, entomophagous insects, and other components of the forest ecosystem, which increase or decrease the probability of outbreaks, the frequency, duration, and intensity of these outbreaks, and the change in the role of individual species in complexes.
Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Phenological resistance of trees to phytophagous insects;
- Phenological asynchrony between host trees, herbivorous and entomophagous insects, and vectors of pathogens;
- Probability, frequency, duration, and severity of forest insect outbreaks in new climate.
Prof. Dr. Valentyna Meshkova
Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Holuša
Dr. Mihai-Leonard Duduman
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- biotic risks in the forest
- phenological asynchrony between trophic levels
- population dynamic
- phytophagous forest insects
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