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Forest Health Research at UNBC: Insights into Pest Outbreaks and Tree Defenses

Explore the latest research findings on pest outbreaks, population genetics, terpenoid defenses, and disease development in forest ecosystems. Discover the impact of factors like elevation and disturbance ecology on tree health. Delve into the genetic structure of pest populations and the potential for resistance breeding.

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Forest Health Research at UNBC: Insights into Pest Outbreaks and Tree Defenses

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  1. Forest Health Research at UNBC Photo: D. Huber

  2. Kathy Lewis • Dothistroma • Outbreak reconstruction (Cedar Welch) • Evidence of outbreaks back to 1800’s • Increasing severity • Warm, wet periods • Population genetics (Angie Dale) • Sexually reproducing populations • Resistance breeding probably not viable • Epidemiology and disease development (Crystal Braun) • Elevation important • Not aspect • Disturbance Ecology reconstruction • Connection between C. biennis and D. confusus (Doug Thompson)

  3. Dezene Huber • Mountain pine beetle • Terpenoid defenses (Erin Clark) • S and N populations of lodgepole pine • Jack pine and lodgepole-jack pine hybrids • Heritability of terpenoid defenses (Dan Ott/Kimberly Wallin) • MPB and blue stain fungi • Resistance in seed orchards (with Lindgren) • Detoxification of terpenoids (Caitlin Pitt) • Cold tolerance (Jordie Fraser) • MPB in spruce (with Aukema/Hodgkinson/Lindgren)

  4. Brian Aukema, CFS • MPB • Absolute-risk landscape level spread model for MPB (or any other pest/pathogen) • Incorporation of genomics information into MPB spread models (Genome BC announcement) • Landscape factors influencing distribution east of the rockies (Honey-Marie Giroday) • MPB in spruce (Fraser McKee, Jeff Selesnic) • Warren root collar weevil • Impact of MPB-caused mortality (Matt Klingenberg, Gareth Hopkins)

  5. Brent Murray • MPB • Genetic structure of MPB populations in BC and Alberta (Nic Bartell) • Distinct populations • Microsatellite DNA analyses (genome project (UNBC, UofA, UBC))

  6. Others • Oscar Garcia • New stand growth model for interior spruce in the SBS • Art Fredeen • Fluxnet project in mountain beetle-affected stands at Crooked River and Kennedy Siding in pine dominated stands (Burton, CFS/Black, UBC) • Ian Hartley • Chris Hawkins

  7. Other related information • Quantitative genetics post-docs • Dr. Chris Wallis • Conifer resistance to pathogens • Dr. Brian Pickles • Mycorrhizae and spatial processes

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