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Creator:: Billings, Ronald F.
Abstract:: The bark beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) has caused severe mortality in recent decades to young stands of ponderosa pine in the western United States. Insect parasites and predators, believed to be of importance in the population dynamics of the beetle, were the subject of the thesis research, conducted...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Lemieux, Jeffrey P.
Abstract:: This dissertation describes arthropod responses to and effects on decay processes in ponderosa pine, a dominant forest canopy tree in northern California. We used both descriptive and experimental field techniques to establish how arthropod assemblages depend on and are important to the disintegration of woody structures in forests of this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: traps placed within and on the outsides of fallen, large old ponderosa pine trees to establish the

Creator:: Pitman, Gary Boyd
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to study in some detail host factors which influence the population dynamics of bark beetle. The dissertation objectives were to ascertain the applicability of utilizing osmotic pressure values and relative turgidity values of phloem tissue as indicators which reflect upon the physiological profile of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: of ponderosa pine girdled for one month, one year and five years......, 127 17. Summary of the

Creator:: Stimmann, Michael W.
Abstract:: Two populations of the pine needle scale, Phenacaspis pinifoliae (Fitch), were studied. One population was located in Corvallis, Oregon, and the other population was located near Santiam Pass, Oregon. Both populations were feeding on Pinus contorta. The Corvallis population was unisexual, univoltine, and over wintered as both eggs and adult...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Phenacaspis pinifoliae on "Scotch pine" in Saskatchewan, Canada. The population was bisexual and univoltine

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