Seasonal and spatial changes in the structure of the subcortical insect community in pine forests

Ken Yoshikawa; Makoto Kasahara

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Seasonal and spatial changes in the structure of the subcortical insect community in pine forests

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Authors:

Ken Yoshikawa, Makoto Kasahara

Year:

1991

Type:

Paper

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 397.

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Abstract

More than 30 species of beetles have been identified/documented as pine borers in Japan, the majority of them belonging to the Curculionidae, Cerambycidae, and Scolytidae. The density of their populations is controlled primarily by food supply. Although most of them are secondary pests which cannot attack healthy trees, an epidemic of pine wilt disease caused by the pine wood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus, has guaranteed them a continuously sufficient food supply. This paper discusses the results of an experiment to study seasonal and spatial changes in the structure of the subcortical insect community in pine forests.

Parent Publication

Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees

Citation

Yoshikawa, Ken; Kasahara, Makoto. 1991. Seasonal and spatial changes in the structure of the subcortical insect community in pine forests. In: Baranchikov, Yuri N.; Mattson, William J.; Hain, Fred P.; Payne, Thomas L., eds. Forest Insect Guilds: Patterns of Interaction with Host Trees; 1989 August 13-17; Abakan, Siberia, U.S.S.R. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-153. Radnor, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station: 397.