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- Title
Evolving symbioses between insects and fungi that kill trees in Canada: new threats associated with invasive organisms.
- Authors
Ramsfield, Tod D.; Langor, David W.; Alfaro, René I.
- Abstract
Symbiotic relationships between insects and fungi are known to cause tree mortality either through direct damage by larval feeding that can be facilitated by symbiotic fungi, or through insects vectoring pathogens directly to healthy trees. Within their native ranges, the impacts of many insect-fungus symbioses are restricted to weakened and declining trees; however, within the last century tree mortality caused by globally invasive insect–fungus associations has had a devastating impact on trees in both urban and natural forest ecosystems. Unfortunately, Canadian forests have been seriously affected by invasive organisms and an emerging threat is the expansion of a native bark beetle into the boreal forest of Alberta. This paper reviews the symbiotic relationships between selected invasive insects and pathogens that cause tree mortality within the urban and forested landscapes of Canada; it uses these case studies to illustrate potentially damaging new evolutionary trajectories.
- Subjects
SYMBIOSIS; TREE diseases &; pests; INSECTS; FUNGI; TREE mortality; BARK beetles
- Publication
Canadian Entomologist, 2016, Vol 148, pS160
- ISSN
0008-347X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4039/tce.2015.65