IUFRO WP 7.03.16 & 7.03.05 – Seminar Series on “Behavioral and chemical ecology of bark and woodboring insects"

This webinar series has five talks covering a wide range of topics related to behavioral and chemical ecology of forest insects. These virtual seminars are open to all registered participants. The webinar series is co-hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, the Institute for Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, BOKU, the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay and the Canadian Forest Service.

Following the launch of the IUFRO Working Party 7.03.16 in 2020, a webinar series was organized to promote the new working party and to highlight research focused on the behavioral and chemical ecology of forest insects. Following the success of that webinar series, the Working Parties 7.03.16 and 7.03.05 have collaborated to develop a webinar series on the “Behavioral and chemical ecology of bark and woodboring insects”. The webinar series is co-hosted by the Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute, University of Pretoria, the Institute for Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, BOKU, the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay and the Canadian Forest Service.  This series consists of six webinars, each with a brief introduction to the subject and 2-3 research talks and will cover a wide range of topics related to the behavioral and chemical ecology of bark and woodboring insects. These virtual seminars are open to all registered participants.

Please fill in the registration form on the left menu of this page if you are interested in attending any of the seminars (please see the list of seminars, speakers and dates in the drop down menu on the left).  After registration you will be contacted by email with a link to attend the seminars. If you wish to contribute to future webinars series please contact the coordinators of this Working Party (Drs. Jeremy Allison, Sigrid Netherer and Andres Gonzalez).

All the talks are available for you to watch on Youtube.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE SEMINAR START TIME IS 16:00 UTC

January 21 - Plant Defense and Biotic and Abiotic Stressors

Nadir Erbilgin, University of Alberta

16:00 - 16:15 Introduction by seminar leader

16:15 - 16:30 "Identifying anatomical and chemical defense fingerprints in Alberta lodgepole pine against mountain pine beetle" by Jennifer Klutsch, University of Alberta

16:30 - 16:45 "Presumed resistant: using current constitutive chemistry to predict historic resistance to insect outbreak" by Ken Keefover-Ring, University of Wisconsin-Madison

16:45 - 17:00 "Stress promotes access to alternate hosts for emerald ash borer" by Don Cipollini, Wright State University

17:00 - 17:30 Open discussion

February 04 - Visual Ecology of Forest Beetles

Johannes Spaethe, University of Wurzburg

16:00 - 16:15 Introduction by seminar leader

16:15 - 16:30 "Color and vision in Buprestidae: Blind to blue but with genetic work-arounds" by Nathan Lord, Louisiana State University

16:30 - 16:45 "Visual Responses of Male Agrilus spp. to Female Decoys Emitting Different Structural "Colors" and Light Strands" by Tom Baker, Pennsylvania State University

16:45 - 17:00 "Exploitation of the Visual Ecology of Woodboring Beetles for Survey and Detection" by Davide Rassati, University of Padova

17:00 - 17:30 Open discussion

February 18 – Finding a point source of odor in a turbulent world:  an overview of mechanisms and constraints

Ring Carde, University of California-Riverside

16:00 - 16:15 Introduction by seminar leader

16:15 - 16:30 "Gaseous Plumes in Forest Canopies: Concepts of Structure and Scale" by Harold Thistle, USDA Forest Service

16:30 - 16:45 "Using pheromone traps for surveillance of invasive moths: effects of ranging flight, distance of attraction, and efficiency of trap capture on detection" by Ring Carde, University of California-Riverside

16:45 - 17:00 "Beyond origami: Understanding mechanisms of differential trap performance to improve trap designs for forest Coleoptera" by Jeremy Allison, Natural resources Canada

17:00 - 17:30 Open discussion

March 04 - Climate Change Effects on Bark Beetle Range Expansion, Community Associates and Outbreak Dynamics

Barbara Bentz, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

16:00 - 16:15 Introduction by seminar leader

16:15 - 16:30 "Endemic niche requirements limit persistence potential of an eruptive herbivore in novel habitats: the fate of invasive mountain pine beetle in the western boreal forest." by Allan Carroll, University of British Columbia

16:30 - 16:45 "Comparing communities of the “not-so-Southern pine beetle” (Dendroctonus frontalis) between its historical and advancing northern range" by Jeff Garnas, University of New Hampshire

16:45 - 17:00 "Effects of climate on ectosymbiotic community dynamics associated with bark and ambrosia beetles" by Richard Hofstetter, Northern Arizona University

17:00 - 17:30 Open discussion

March 18 - Behavioural and Invasion Ecology of Hylurgus ligniperda

Ecki Brockerhoff, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL

16:00 - 16:15 Introduction by seminar leader

16:15 - 16:30 "Dispersal of H. ligniperda: Evidence from release-recapture experiments" by Nicolas Meurisse, Scion

16:30 - 16:45 "Allee effects in invasions of H. ligniperda" by Kevin Chase, Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory

16:45 - 17:00 "Population genetic evidence of invasion routes of H. ligniperda" by Lea Bischofberger, ETH Zurich.

17:00 - 17:30 Open discussion

April 01 -Chemical Ecology of Ips typographus – Norway spruce Interactions

Sigrid Netherer, University of Vienna

16:00 - 16:10 Introduction by seminar leader

16:10 - 16:35 "Norway spruce vulnerability for bark beetle attack under abiotic stress conditions" by Anna Jirosová, Czech University of Life Sciences

16:35 - 17:00 "Does bark beetle attack history change the induction of terpene and phenolic defenses in mature Norway spruce?" by Raimund Nagel, University of Leipzig

17:00 - 17:30 Open discussion