Javier E. Mercado

Treesearch Publications

• Javier E. Mercado. 2025. Thirteen previously unrecorded spiders detected by citizen scientists from Puerto Rico and the U. S. Virgin Islands: A contribution to the spider fauna 100 years after Petrunkevitch's work
• Paula J. Fornwalt, Andreas P. Wion, Anna W. Schoettle, Miranda D. Redmond, Steven Alton, Javier E. Mercado, Brice Hanberry, Jose Negron. 2024. Vulnerability of major Colorado Front Range tree species to climate change (Chapter 5)
• Jose Negron, Javier E. Mercado. 2024. Insects and diseases and climate change in Colorado Front Range forests (Chapter 8)
• Joseph M. Wunderle Jr., Michael Akresh, Dave Currie, Javier E. Mercado, Eileen Helmer, David Ewert. 2024. Factors influencing home range size and overlap in nonbreeding Kirtland’s Warblers on Eleuthera, The Bahamas
• Javier E. Mercado. 2023. Reproductive interference between native and introduced lady beetles (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) in Puerto Rico
• Javier E. Mercado, Robert T. Walker, Scott Franklin, Shannon Kay, Beatriz Ortiz-Santana, S. Karen. Gomez. 2023. Xylem traumatic resin duct formation in response to stem fungal inoculation in Douglas-fir and lodgepole pine
• Javier E. Mercado, Robert T. Walker, Scott Franklin, Shannon L. Kay, Susana Karen Gomez, Robert M. Hubbard. 2021. Changes in transpiration and leaf water potential in Douglas-fir trees following Douglas-fir beetle attack and mechanical girdling
• Javier E. Mercado, Beatriz Ortiz-Santana, Shannon L. Kay. 2021. Endemic Jeffrey pine beetle associates: Beetle/mite fungal dissemination strategies and interactions that may influence beetle population levels
• Daniel S. Ott, Thomas Seth Davis, Javier E. Mercado. 2021. Interspecific variation in spruce constitutive and induced defenses in response to a bark beetle-fungal symbiont provides insight into traits associated with resistance
• Sneha Vissa, Javier E. Mercado, Danielle Malesky, Derek A. Uhey, Boyd A. Mori, Wayne Knee, Maya L. Evenden, Richard W. Hofstetter. 2020. Patterns of diversity in the symbiotic mite assemblage of the mountain pine beetle
• Javier E. Mercado. 2020. Improved identification and new records of Dendroctonus bark beetles attacking Pinus contorta in the subalpine forest of the southern Rocky Mountains
• Javier E. Mercado, Beatriz Ortiz-Santana. 2018. Mountain pine beetle mutualist Leptographium longiclavatum presence in the southern Rocky Mountains during a record warm period
• Javier E. Mercado, Beatriz Ortiz-Santana, Shannon L. Kay. 2018. Fungal frequency and mite load trends interact with a declining mountain pine beetle population
• Danielle M. Malesky, Barbara J. Bentz, Gary R. Brown, Andrea R. Brunelle, John M. Buffington, Linda M. Chappell, R. Justin DeRose, John C. Guyon, Carl L. Jorgensen, Rachel A. Loehman, Laura L. Lowrey, Ann M. Lynch, Marek Matyjasik, Joel D. McMillin, Javier E. Mercado, Jesse L. Morris, Jose Negron, Wayne G. Padgett, Robert Progar, Carol B. Randall. 2018. Effects of climate change on ecological disturbances [Chapter 8]
• Thaynara S. Martins, Felipe F. F. Moreira, Javier E. Mercado, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay. 2016. Lecto- and Paralectotype Designations and Redescription of Arachnocoris alboannulatus Costa Lima, 1927 (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Nabidae)
• Javier E. Mercado, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, Michael D. Webb. 2016. Review of the West Indian Arachnocoris Scott, 1881 (Hemiptera: Nabidae), with descriptions of two new species, and a catalog of the species
• Javier E. Mercado, Jorge A. Santiago-Blay. 2015. Multiple model mimicry and feeding behavior of the spider web-inhabiting damsel bug, Arachnocoris berytoides Uhler (Hemiptera: Nabidae), from Puerto Rico
• Javier E. Mercado, Jose Negron. 2014. Revision of the new world species of Hylurgops LeConte, 1876 with the description of a new genus in the Hylastini (Coleoptera: Scolytinae) and comments on some Palearctic species
• Javier E. Mercado, Richard W. Hofstetter, Danielle M. Reboletti, Jose Negron. 2014. Phoretic symbionts of the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins)
• Joseph M. Wunderle, Javier E. Mercado, Bernard Parresol, Esteban Terranova. 2004. Spatial ecology of Puerto Rican boas (Epicrates inornatus) in a hurricane impacted forest
• Javier E. Mercado, ESTEBAN TERRANOVA, JR. WUNDERLE. 2002. Avian Mobbing of the Puerto Rican Boa (Epicrates inornatus)

• Program
  

  Forest and Woodland Ecosystems

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/fwe
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Citizen scientists help detect 13 new spider species in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/citizen-scientists-help-detect-13-new-spider-species-puerto-rico-and-us-virgin

Multimedia

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  Meet Dr. Javier Mercado, Research Entomologist

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• Video

  Conoce a Javier Mercado, Entomólogo de Investigación

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