Emerald Ash Borer Invasion of North America: History, Biology, Ecology, Impacts, and Management

Annual Review of Entomology, Journal Year: 2013, Volume and Issue: 59(1), P. 13 - 30

Published: Oct. 10, 2013

Since its accidental introduction from Asia, emerald ash borer (EAB), Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), has killed millions of trees in North America. As it continues to spread, could functionally extirpate with devastating economic and ecological impacts. Little was known about EAB when first discovered America 2002, but substantial advances understanding biology, ecology, management have occurred since. Ash species indigenous China are generally resistant may eventually provide resistance genes for introgression into American species. is characterized by stratified dispersal resulting natural human-assisted effort been devoted the development survey methods. Early eradication efforts were abandoned largely because difficulty detecting delineating infestations. Current focused on biological control, insecticide protection high-value trees, integrated slow mortality.

Language: Английский

---

European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) dieback – A conservation biology challenge

Biological Conservation, Journal Year: 2012, Volume and Issue: 158, P. 37 - 49

Published: Nov. 28, 2012

Language: Английский

---

Field-Cage Methodology for Evaluating Climatic Suitability for Introduced Wood-Borer Parasitoids: Preliminary Results from the Emerald Ash Borer System

Journal of Insect Science, Journal Year: 2011, Volume and Issue: 11(141), P. 1 - 10

Published: Oct. 1, 2011

Field-cage methods were developed to evaluate the abilities of Tetrastichus planipennisi Yang (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) and Spathius agrili Braconidae), biocontrol agents Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), parasitize, develop overwinter following three late-season releases at both a northern (Michigan) southern (Maryland) location within current North American range A. planipennis. In August, September October 2009, five young green ash trees selected each location. S. randomly assigned one two cages attached tree, surrounding separate sections trunk in which late-instar had been inserted. The April, caged dissected determine fate larva developmental stages all recovered parasitoid progeny. At locations, T. able parasitize hosts successfully (i.e., reach adulthood spring). For planipennisi, successful parasitism progeny reached adulthood) occurred for Maryland, but only August Michigan. percent by was higher than October. agrili, release caging method described here should be useful determining climatic suitability other regions before proceeding with large-scale either species may have utility wood-borer systems as well.

Language: Английский

---

Coextinction and Persistence of Dependent Species in a Changing World

Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics, Journal Year: 2012, Volume and Issue: 43(1), P. 183 - 203

Published: Aug. 30, 2012

The extinction of a single species is rarely an isolated event. Instead, dependent parasites, commensals, and mutualist partners (affiliates) face the risk coextinction as their hosts or decline fail. Species interactions in ecological networks can transmit effects primary extinctions within between trophic levels, causing secondary cascades. Documenting coextinctions complicated by ignorance host specificity, limitations historical collections, incomplete systematics affiliate taxa, lack experimental studies. Host shifts may reduce rate coextinctions, but they are poorly understood. In absence better empirical records statistical models estimate rates past future based on among species, network explore Models predict evidence reveals that threat influenced both traits exacerbated other threats, including habitat loss, climate change, invasive species.

Language: Английский

---

Ecology of forest insect invasions

Biological Invasions, Journal Year: 2017, Volume and Issue: 19(11), P. 3141 - 3159

Published: July 20, 2017

Language: Английский

---

Ash (Fraxinus spp.) mortality, regeneration, and seed bank dynamics in mixed hardwood forests following invasion by emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis)

Biological Invasions, Journal Year: 2013, Volume and Issue: 16(4), P. 859 - 873

Published: Aug. 29, 2013

Language: Английский

---

Potential distribution of emerald ash borer: What can we learn from ecological niche models using Maxent and GARP?

Forest Ecology and Management, Journal Year: 2012, Volume and Issue: 281, P. 23 - 31

Published: July 15, 2012

Language: Английский

---

Cascading extinctions as a hidden driver of insect decline

Ecological Entomology, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 46(4), P. 743 - 756

Published: Nov. 30, 2020

1. The decline in insect abundance and diversity observed many ecosystems is of major concern because the long‐term consequences for ecosystem function stability. 2. Species ecological communities are connected through interactions forming complex networks. Therefore, initial extinctions can cause further species losses co‐extinctions extinction cascades, where single lead to waves secondary extinctions. Such knock‐on effects multiply impact disturbances, thereby largely adding erosion biodiversity. However, our knowledge their importance current hampered challenging both detect predict. 3. In this review, we bring together theory about light main drivers decline. We evaluate potential evidence cascading different identify pathways. By providing selected examples discuss how habitat loss, pollution, invasions, climate change overexploitation argue that loss pollution particular have largest such by changing community structure, physical environment, robustness. 4. Overall, part an ecosystems' response anthropogenic but so far not explicitly measured contribution when evaluating biodiversity loss. This necessary predict find strategies buffer against devastating change.

Language: Английский

---

Ecological Impacts of Emerald Ash Borer in Forests at the Epicenter of the Invasion in North America

Forests, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 9(5), P. 250 - 250

Published: May 5, 2018

We review research on ecological impacts of emerald ash borer (EAB)-induced mortality in the Upper Huron River watershed southeast Michigan near epicenter invasion North America, where forests have been impacted longer than any others America. By 2009, green, white, and black exceeded 99%, seed production regeneration had ceased. This left an orphaned cohort saplings too small to be infested, fate which may depend ability natural enemies regulate EAB populations at low densities. There was no relationship between patterns density, importance, or community composition. Most trees died over a five-year period, resulting relatively simultaneous, widespread gap formation. Disturbance from formation accumulation coarse woody debris caused by cascading forest communities, including successional trajectories, growth non-native invasive plants, soil dwelling herbivorous arthropod bird foraging behavior, abundance, These other ecosystems are likely experienced elsewhere as continues spread.

Language: Английский

---

Tissue-Specific Transcriptomics of the Exotic Invasive Insect Pest Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis)

PLoS ONE, Journal Year: 2010, Volume and Issue: 5(10), P. e13708 - e13708

Published: Oct. 28, 2010

The insect midgut and fat body represent major tissue interfaces that deal with several important physiological functions including digestion, detoxification immune response. emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis), is an exotic invasive pest has killed millions of trees (Fraxinus spp.) primarily in the Midwestern United States Ontario, Canada. However, despite its high impact status little knowledge exists for A. planipennis at molecular level.Newer-generation Roche-454 pyrosequencing was used to obtain 126,185 reads 240,848 body, which were assembled into 25,173 37,661 quality expressed sequence tags (ESTs) larvae, respectively. Among these ESTs, 36% 38% sequences showed similarity proteins GenBank nr database. A number contained chitin-binding peritrophin (248)and trypsin (98) domains; while occurrence cytochrome P450s (85) protein kinase (123) domains. Further, transcriptome revealed putative microbial transcripts encoding cell-wall degrading enzymes such as polygalacturonases endoglucanases. significant SNPs (137 347 body) microsatellite loci (317 571 predicted transcripts. An initial assessment belonging various CYP clades distinct expression patterns level.To our this study one first illuminate tissue-specific gene ecological economic consequence. These findings will lay foundation future functional studies planipennis.

Language: Английский

---