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R. Talbot Trotter III, PhD

R. Talbot Trotter III, PhD

Research Ecologist

Northern Research Station

0000000311892107

robert.t.trotter@usda.gov

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Meredith S. Bean, R. Talbot Trotter III, Jennifer L. Chandler, Robert Ritger, Cooper Schroeder, Jess A Hartshorn, Brandon K Peoples, Kyle Barrett, Scott E Pfister, David R Coyle. 2026. Local dispersal and growth in an island population of Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in South Carolina
R. Talbot Trotter III, Jennifer L. Chandler, Matthew Richardson. 2026. ALBERT 1.0: Supporting eradication of Asian longhorned beetle
Jennifer L. Chandler, Jian Duan, R. Talbot Trotter III, Joseph Elkinton. 2026. Effects of larval stage and diapause status on cold hardiness of emerald ash borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): implications for winter survival and establishment
Melody Keena, R. Talbot Trotter III, Amanda D. Roe, David R. Coyle. 2026. New Insights on the Ecology, Economics, and Management of Anoplophora Longhorned Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae: Lamiinae)
Meredith S. Bean, R. Talbot Trotter III, Robert Ritger, Kyle Barrett, Scott E. Pfister, David R. Coyle. 2025. Distribution of Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) damage in tree canopies: implications for survey efficacy
Lena Schmitt, R. Talbot Trotter III, David R. Coyle. 2025. Validating a variable-instar, climate-based phenology model for the Asian longhorned beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) using field data from South Carolina
Lena Schmitt, R. Talbot Trotter III, Crystal Bishop, Katy Crout, Scott Pfister, David R. Coyle. 2025. Phenology and voltinism of the Asian longhorned beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in South Carolina, United States
Jennifer L. Chandler, R. Talbot Trotter III, Brian Aukema. 2025. A female sterilization method for use in field-based behavioral studies of the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis)
R. Talbot Trotter III, Melissa L. Warden, Ryan J. Vazquez, Josie K. Ryan, Scott Pfister. 2024. ALB Hazard Management and Monitoring Version 1.0: an assessment and tracking tool for Asian longhorned beetle eradications in the United States
R. Talbot Trotter III, Josie K. Ryan, Jennifer L. Chandler, Scott Pfister. 2023. Tracking the push towards extinction: combining dispersal and management data to monitor Asian longhorned beetle eradication in the U.S.
Nicholas Dietschler, Tonya Bittner, R. Talbot Trotter III, Timothy Fahey, Mark C. Whitmore. 2021. Biological Control of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid: Implications of Adult Emergence Patterns of Two Leucopis spp. (Diptera: Chamaemyiidae) and Laricobius nigrinus (Coleoptera: Derodontidae) Larval Drop
David R. Coyle, R. Talbot Trotter III, Meredith S. Bean, Scott E. Pfister. 2021. First Recorded Asian Longhorned Beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Infestation in the Southern United States
R. Talbot Trotter III, Melissa L. Warden, Scott Pfister, Ryan J. Vazquez, Josie K. Ryan, Michael Bohne. 2021. ALB Risk version 1.1: Asian longhorned beetle dispersal risk estimation tool
Theresa M. Crimmins, Katharine L. Gerst, Diego G. Huerta, R. Lee Marsh, Erin E. Posthumus, Alyssa H. Rosemartin, Jeff Switzer, Jake F. Weltzin, Len Coop, Nicholas Dietschler, Daniel A. Herms, Samita Limbu, R. Talbot Trotter III, Mark Whitmore. 2020. Short-term forecasts of insect phenology inform pest management
R. Talbot Trotter III, Samita Limbu, Kelli Hoover, Hannah Nadel, Melody Keena. 2020. Comparing Asian Gypsy Moth [Lymantria dispar asiatica (Lepidoptera: Erebidae) and L. dispar japonica] Trap Data From East Asian Ports With Lab Parameterized Phenology Models: New Tools and Questions
Scott M. Salom, Gina Davis, Joseph Elkinton, Jeremiah Foley, Nathan P. Havill, Carrie Jubb, Albert Mayfield, Tom McAvoy, Rusty Rhea, R. Talbot Trotter III, Mark Whitmore. 2019. A response to "Media representation of hemlock woolly adelgid management risks: a case study of science communication and invasive species control," published in biological invasions online on September 18, 2018
R. Talbot Trotter III, Eugene Pepper, Kevin Davis, Ryan Vazquez. 2019. Anisotropic dispersal by the Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis): quantifying spatial risk and eradication effort with limited biological data
Helen Hull-Sanders, Eugene Pepper, Kevin Davis, R. Talbot Trotter III, Daniel Doucet. 2017. Description of an establishment event by the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis) in a suburban landscape in the northeastern United States
Alexander P. Kappel, R. Talbot Trotter III, Melody Keena, John Rogan, Christopher A. Williams. 2017. Mapping of the Asian longhorned beetle's time to maturity and risk to invasion at contiguous United States extent
R. Talbot Trotter III, Melody Keena. 2016. A variable-instar climate-driven individual beetle-based phenology model for the invasive Asian longhorned beetle (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae)
Wing Yi Kung, Kelli Hoover, Richard Cowles, R. Talbot Trotter III. 2015. Long-Term Effects of Imidacloprid on Eastern Hemlock Canopy Arthropod Biodiversity in New England
P.S. Meng, R. Talbot Trotter III, Melody Keena, T.C. Baker, S. Yan, E.G. Schwartzberg, K. Hoover. 2014. Effects of pheromone and plant volatile release rates and ratios on trapping Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in China
M.E. Nehme, R. Talbot Trotter III, Melody Keena, C. McFarland, J. Coop, H.M. Hull-Sanders, P. Meng, C.M. De Moraes, M.C. Mescher, K. Hoover. 2014. Development and evaluation of a trapping system for Anoplophora glabripennis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in the United States
R. Talbot Trotter III, Randall Morin, Sonja Oswalt, Andrew M. Liebhold. 2013. Changes in the regional abundance of hemlock associated with the invasion of hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae Annand)
R. Talbot Trotter III. 2013. Relationships among climate, forests, and insects in North America: Examples of the importance of long-term and broad-scale perspectives
Laura L. Ingwell, Mailea Miller-Pierce, R. Talbot Trotter III, Evan L. Preisser. 2012. Vegetation and invertebrate community response to eastern hemlock decline in southern new England
Melody Keena, R. Talbot Trotter III, Carole Cheah, Michael Montgomery. 2012. Effects of temperature and photoperiod on the aestivo-hibernal egg diapause of Scymnus camptodromus (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae)
Joseph S. Elkinton, R. Talbot Trotter III, Ann F. Paradis. 2011. Simulations of population dynamics of hemlock woolly adelgid and potential impact of biological control agents
R. Talbot Trotter III. 2011. Long-term weather variability and shifting distribution limits of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae Annand)
R. Talbot Trotter III. 2009. Hemlock canopy arthropods: biodiversity on a threatened host.
R. Talbot Trotter III, Kathleen Shields. 2009. Variation in winter survival of the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae) across the eastern United States
R. Talbot Trotter III, Kathleen Shields. 2009. Assessing assumptions about adelgid attributes: landscape patterns of an invasive insect
Scott D. Costa, R. Talbot Trotter III, Michael Montgomery, Michael Fortney. 2008. Low temperature in the hemlock woolly adelgid system
R. Talbot Trotter III, Anthony W. Courter, Richard M. Turcotte, Brad Onken. 2008. Incorporating hemlock woolly adelgid impacts into the Forest Vegetation Simulator model
R. Talbot Trotter III. 2008. Climate matching: implications for the biological control of hemlock woolly adelgid
R. Talbot Trotter III, Michael Montgomery. 2008. Modeling environmentally driven life cycles for hemlock woolly adelgid and the biological control agent Scymnus sinuanodulus
R. Talbot Trotter III. 2007. The effects of climate, geography, and time on hemlock woolly adelgid and its natural enemies

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