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“No Vacancy”: Masking spruce trees from spruce beetles with semiochemicals on the Kenai Peninsula
| Authors: | Jackson Audley, Christopher J. Fettig, Jason E. Moan, Jessie Moan, Steve Swenson, Elizabeth E. Graham, Agenor Mafra-Neto |
| Published: | April 15, 2025 |
| Type: | Report |
Abstract
Discussions with resource managers, policy makers, and others prompted our team to investigate the effectiveness of novel semiochemical repellents to protect spruce trees from mortality attributed to spruce beetle in Alaska.
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