Patrick I. Bennett, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Robbie Andrus, Brytten Steed, Joel Egan, Jordan Lestina, James Steed, Patrick I. Bennett, Arjan J. H. Meddens, John Goodburn. 2026. A multi‐scale assessment of interior Douglas‐fir tree mortality for hazard and risk assessments
• Jane E Stewart, Mee-Sook Kim, Jorge R Ibarra Caballero, Patrick I. Bennett, John W. Hanna, Rubén D Elías-Román, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2025. High-quality draft genome for Armillaria mexicana, a recently described species in North America
• Jane E Stewart, Mee-Sook Kim, Jorge R Ibarra Caballero, Patrick I. Bennett, John W. Hanna, Rubén D Elías-Román, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2025. High-quality draft genome for Armillaria mexicana, a recently described species in North America
• Ada J. Fitz Axen, Mee-Sook Kim, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Sara Ashiglar, John W. Hanna, Patrick I. Bennett, Jane E. Stewart. 2024. Fire-associated microbial shifts in soils of western conifer forests with Armillaria root disease
• Jared M. LeBoldus, Shannon C. Lynch, Andrew E. Newhouse, Kelsey L. Søndreli, George Newcombe, Patrick I. Bennett, Wellington Muchero, Jin-Gui Chen, Posy E. Busby, Michael Gordon, Haiying Liang. 2024. Biotechnology and genomic approaches to mitigating disease impacts on forest health
• John W. Hanna, Patrick I. Bennett, Maria Newcomb, Mee-Sook Kim, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2024. Updated bioclimatic modeling of Armillaria solidipes in the Intermountain Region (USA)
• John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, Patrick I. Bennett, Ashley E. Hawkins, Chris A. Lee, Kim Corella, Charles W. Barnes, Wallis L. Robinson, Duncan Kroese, William C. Woodruff, Phil G. Cannon, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2024. Ongoing surveys for Armillaria in California: DNA-based identification, bioclimatic modeling, and information for managing Armillaria root disease under changing environments
• John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, Patrick I. Bennett, Geral McDonald, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2024. Bioclimatic modeling of Armillaria altimontana in western North America
• Thomas C. Harrington, David C. Shaw, Jane E. Stewart, Patrick I. Bennett, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Daram Choi, Duncan Kroese, Mee-Sook Kim. 2024. Species-level recognition of the three varieties of Leptographium wageneri (cause of black stain root disease) and prediction of their potential suitable climate spaces in the western USA
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jason R. Reinhardt, Hannah Basham, Nicole Mutchler, Christy Cleaver, John W. Hanna, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Jane E. Stewart. 2024. Aerial spore sampling to assess white pine blister rust risk in western white pine (Pinus monticola) and whitebark pine (P. albicaulis) stands at Priest River Experimental Forest in northern Idaho
• Ada Fitz Axen, Ned B. Klopfenstein, Mee-Sook Kim, John W. Hanna, Patrick I. Bennett, Sara Ashiglar, Jane E. Stewart. 2024. Influence of fire on native microbial communities in forest soils associated with the fungal pathogen Armillaria solidipes
• Patrick I. Bennett, Joel Egan, Christy Cleaver, Paul Zambino, Kara Costanza. 2022. Assessment of root disease occurrence and severity estimated from climate models with Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data
• B. C. Alveshere, Patrick I. Bennett, Mee-Sook Kim, Ned B. Klopfenstein, J. M. LeBoldus. 2021. First report of Armillaria cepistipes causing root disease on Populus trichocarpa in Oregon, USA
• Ekaterina Smirnova, Patrick I. Bennett, Joel Egan, Leonid Kalachev, John Goodburn, I. Blakey Lockman, Cheri Hartless. 2021. Impacts of thinning treatments on dynamics of needle disease caused by Elytroderma deformans (Weir) Darker and interactions with bark beetle-attacks in the northern Rocky Mountains
• Patrick I. Bennett, Javier F. Tabima, Anna L. Leon, John Browning, Michael J. Wingfield, Jared M. LeBoldus. 2021. Spatial genetic structure of the insect-vectored conifer pathogen Leptographium wageneri suggests long distance gene flow among Douglas-fir plantations in western Oregon
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jared M. LeBoldus. 2020. Analyzing genetic variation: What can population genomics tell us about the biology and management of our favorite forest pathogens?
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jared M. LeBoldus. 2020. Insights into the epidemiology and dispersal capabilities of Leptographium wageneri var. pseudotsugae within and between young Douglas-fir stands in western Oregon
• Brandon C. Alveshere, Shawn McMurtrey, Patrick I. Bennett, Mee-Sook Kim, John W. Hanna, Ned B. Klopfenstein, James T. Blodgett, Jared M. LeBoldus. 2020. Phylogeography and host range of Armillaria gallica in riparian forests of the northern Great Plains, USA
• John W. Hanna, Mee-Sook Kim, A. C. Ramsey, D. W. Omdal, R. L. Mulvey, B. A. Goodrich, B. A. Ferguson, J. J. Bronson, E. M. Goheen, K. L. Chadwick, H. S. J. Kearns, I. B. Lockman, A. K. B. LaBarge, J. E. Stewart, H. M. Maffei, B. W. Oblinger, A. L. Smith, Amy Ross-Davis, D. C. Shaw, J. M. LeBoldus, Patrick I. Bennett, B. C. Alveshere, S. M. Ashiglar, G. I McDonald, E. W. I Pitman, J. B. Donley, B. C. Bright, Marcus V. Warwell, Ned B. Klopfenstein. 2020. Maximum entropy-based bioclimatic models predict areas of current and future suitable habitat for Armillaria species in western Oregon and western Washington
• Jared M. LeBoldus, Shawn B. McMurtrey, Brandon C. Alveshere, Patrick I. Bennett, Mee-Sook Kim, John W. Hanna, Ned B. Klopfenstein, James T. Blodgett. 2020. Phylogenetics and host distribution of Armillaria in riparian ecosystems of the northern Great Plains
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jeffrey K. Stone. 2019. Environmental variables associated with Nothophaeocryptopus gaeumannii population structure and Swiss needle cast severity in western Oregon and Washington
• Patrick I. Bennett, I. A. Hood, J. K. Stone. 2019. The genetic structure of populations of the Douglas-fir Swiss needle cast fungus Nothophaeocryptopus gaeumannii in New Zealand
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jeff Stone. 2018. Evidence for climate as a driver of genetic divergence in native populations of the Douglas-fir Swiss needle cast fungus Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jerry Hill, Douglas P. Savin, Angelia Kegley, Anna W. Schoettle, Richard A. Sniezko, Ben Bird, Jeffrey Stone. 2018. Genetic variation in stomate densities and needle traits in a rangewide sampling of whitebark Pine (Pinus albicaulis)
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jeff Stone. 2017. Hierarchical population structure of Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii in the Pacific Northwest: From needles to landscapes
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jeffrey Stone. 2016. Genotypic diversity and population structure of Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii in New Zealand
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jeffrey Stone. 2016. Genotypic diversity, phylogeography, and population structure of two lineages of Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii in the Pacific Northwest
• Patrick I. Bennett, Jeffrey Stone. 2016. Assessments of population structure, diversity, and phylogeography of the Swiss needle cast fungus (Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii) in the U.S. Pacific Northwest

• Program
  

  Forest and Woodland Ecosystems

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

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Detection, identification, and management of root diseases caused by Onnia in recreation areas

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/onniaspp
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Aerial spore sampling to assess infection risk and inform proactive management for root disease in ponderosa pine forests

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/heterobasidion
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

• Oregon State University, Ph.D., Botany and Plant Pathology, 2018
• Humboldt State University, B.S., Biology, 2012