Itasca Report

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The biology and management of bark beetles in old growth

 pine forests of Itasca State Park

Matthew P. Ayres, Maria J. Lombardero, Bruce D. Ayres, Alice M. Shumate and Alyson E. Santoro

GREAT LAKES INSTITUTE FOR PINE ECOSYSTEM RESEARCH 

PO Box 520, Colfax, WI 54730. 1999. 128 pp.

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Executive summary

Table of contents

List of figures, tables, equations, and appendices

Introduction

Chapter 1. Patterns of host suitability among pine species

Chapter 2. Growth and anti-herbivore defenses of red pine

Chapter 3. Bark beetle communities at Itasca State Park

Chapter 4. Cold tolerance and winter mortality of bark beetles

Chapter 5. Do bark beetles kill trees at Itasca?

Chapter 6. Fire, bark beetles, and tree mortality

Photographic images

Cold tolerance publication in Environmental Entomology

Fire ecology publication in Forest Ecology & Management

Appendices

Acknowledgements