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2010 de la Giroday, H.-M., Carroll, A.L., Lindgren, B.S., and B.H. Aukema. The association between establishment and spread of infestations of mountain pine beetle and landscape features in the Peace River region of British Columbia in Northern Canada. Presubmission review.
2010 de la Giroday, H.-M., Carroll, A.L., and B.H. Aukema. Breach of the northern Rocky Mountain geoclimatic barrier: Initiation of range expansion by the mountain pine beetle. Presubmission review.
2010 Boone, C.K., Aukema, B.H., Bohlmann, J., Carroll, A.L., and K.F. Raffa. Efficacy of plant defenses varies with herbivore population density. Presubmission review.
2010 Zheng, Y. and B.H. Aukema. Hierarchical dynamic modeling of outbreaks of mountain pine beetle using partial differential equations. Environmetrics Resubmitted with revisions.
2010 McMahon, M.D., K.F. Raffa, Nordheim, E.V., and B.H. Aukema. Too close for comfort: Effect of spacing distance and pattern on statistical inference of behavioral choice tests in the field. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. In press.
2010 Aukema, B.H., Powell, J.S., Clayton, M.K., and K.F. Raffa. Variation in complex chemical signals arising from insects and host plants. Environmental Entomology In press.
2010 Klingenberg, M.D., Lindgren, B.S., Gillingham, M.P., and Brian H. Aukema. Links between above- and below-ground herbivory and challenges to forest management: landscape-level impacts of Warren root collar weevil following mountain pine beetle. Journal of Applied Ecology In press.
2010 Klingenberg, M.D., Bjorklund, N., and B.H. Aukema. Seeing the forest through the trees: Differential dispersal of Hylobius warreni Wood within modified forest habitats. Environmental Entomology In press.

Refereed papers

2010 Aukema, B.H., Zhu, J., Møller, J., Rasmussen, J.G., and K.F. Raffa. Predisposition to bark beetle attack by root herbivores and associated pathogens: Roles in forest decline, gap formation, and persistence of endemic bark beetle populations. Forest Ecology and Management. 259: 374-382. [886 KB ]
2009 Hopkins, G.R., Klingenberg, M.D., and B.H. Aukema. Feeding and ovipositional behaviour of Hylobius warreni Wood (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) on host and non-host foliage. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 11: 397-403. [506 KB ]
2009 McCulloch, L., Aukema, B.H., White, K., and M.D. Klingenberg. A stand establishment decision aid for Warren root collar weevil. BC Journal of Ecosystem Management 10: 105-107. [320 KB ]
2009 Koopmans, J., de la Giroday, H.-M. C., Lindgren, B.S., and B.H. Aukema. Take me to your leader: does early successional non-host vegetation spatially inhibit Pissodes strobi (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)? Environmental Entomology 38: 1189-1196. [208 KB ]
2009 Raffa, K.F., Aukema, B.H., Bentz, B.J., Carroll, A.L., Erbilgin, N., Herms, D.A., Hicke, J.A., Hofstetter, R.W., Katovich, S., Lindgren, B.S., Logan, J., Mattson, W., Munson, A.S., Robison, D.J., Six, D.L, Tobin, P.C., Townsend, P.A., and K.F. Wallin. A literal meaning of forest health safeguards against misuses and misapplications. Journal of Forestry 7/8: 276-277. [47 KB ]
2009 Huber, D.P.W., Aukema, B.H., Hodgkinson, R.S., and B.S. Lindgren. Successful reproduction and brood production in live, standing interior hybrid spruce, Picea eneglmannii x glauca, by mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae). Agricultural and Forest Entomology 11: 83-89. [232 KB ]
2008 Raffa, K.F., Aukema, B.H., Bentz, B.J., Carroll, A.L., Hicke, J.A., Turner, M.G., and W. Romme. Cross-scale drivers of natural disturbances prone to anthropogenic amplification: Dynamics of biome-wide bark beetle eruptions. BioScience 58: 501-517. [6.0 MB ]
2008 Aukema, B.H., Carroll, A.L., Zheng, Y., Zhu, J., Raffa, K.F., Moore, R.D., Stahl, K., and S.W. Taylor. Movement of outbreak populations of mountain pine beetle: Influence of spatiotemporal patterns and climate. Ecography 31: 348-358. [518 KB ]
2008 Zhu, J., Zheng, Y., Carroll, A.L., and B. H. Aukema. Autologistic regression analysis of spatial-temporal binary data via Monte Carlo maximum likelihood. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 13: 84-98. [2.4 MB ]
2008 Zhu, J., Rasmussen, J.G., Møller, J.M., Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Spatial-temporal modeling of forest gaps generated by colonization from below- and above-ground bark beetle species. Journal of the American Statistical Association 103: 162-177. [672 KB ]
2008 Öhrn, P. Klingeberg, M, Hopkins, G., and N. Björklund. Two non-destructive techniques for determining the sex of live adult Hylobius warreni. The Canadian Entomologist 140: 617-620. [1.3 MB ]
2007 Raffa, K.F., Hobson, K.R., LaFontaine, S., and B.H. Aukema. Can chemical communication be cryptic? Adaptations of herbivores to natural enemies exploiting prey semiochemistry. Oecologia 153: 1009-1019. [651 KB ]
2007 Rasmussen, J.G., Møller, J.M., Aukema, B.H., Raffa, K.F., and J. Zhu. Continuous time modelling of dynamical spatial lattice data observed at sparsely distributed times. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 69: 701-703. [699 KB ]
2006 Aukema, B.H., Carroll, A.L., Zhu, J., Raffa, K.F., Sickley, T.A., and S.W. Taylor. Landscape level analysis of mountain pine beetle in British Columbia, Canada: Spatiotemporal development and spatial synchrony within the present outbreak. Ecography 29: 427-441. [366 KB ]
2005 Aukema, B.H., Werner, R.A., Haberkern, K.E., Illman, B.L., Clayton, M.K., and K.F. Raffa. Quantifying sources of variation in the frequency of fungi associated with spruce beetles: Implications for sampling methodology and hypothesis testing in bark beetle-symbiont relationships. Forest Ecology and Management 217: 187-202. [231 KB ]
2005 Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Selective manipulation of predators using pheromones: Responses to frontalin and ipsdienol pheromone components of bark beetles in the Great Lakes region. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 7(3): 193-200. [147 KB ]
2005 Aukema, B.H., Clayton, M.K., and K.F. Raffa. Modeling flight activity and population dynamics of the pine engraver, Ips pini, in the Great Lakes Region: Effects of weather and predators at short time scales. Population Ecology 47(1): 61-69. [249 KB ]
2004 Aukema, B.H., Clayton, M.K., and K.F. Raffa. Density-dependent effects of multiple predators sharing a common prey in an endophytic habitat. Oecologia 139(3): 418-426. [382 KB ]
2004 Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Does aggregation benefit bark beetles by diluting predation? Links between a group-colonization strategy and the absence of multiple predator effects. Ecological Entomology 29(2): 129-138. [296 KB ]
2004 Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Behavior of adult and larval Platysoma cylindrica (Coleoptera: Histeridae) and larval Medetera bistriata (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) during subcortical predation of Ips pini (Coleptera: Scolytidae. Journal of Insect Behavior 17(1): 115-128. [301 KB ]
2004 Aukema, B.H., Richards, G.R., Krauth, S.J., and K.F. Raffa. Species assemblage arriving at and emerging from trees colonized by Ips pini in the Great Lakes region: Partitioning by time since colonization, season, and host species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 97: 117-129. [762 KB ]
2004 Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Gender- and sequence- dependent predation within group colonizers of defended plants: a constraint on cheating among bark beetles? Oecologia 138(2): 253-258. [125 KB ]
2002 Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Relative effects of exophytic predation, endophytic predation, and intraspecific competition on a subcortical herbivore: Consequences to the reproduction of Ips pini and Thanasimus dubius. Oecologia 133(4): 483-491. [265 KB ]
2002 Erbilgin, N., Nordheim, E.V., Aukema, B.H., and K.F. Raffa. Population dynamics of Ips pini and Ips grandicollis in red pine plantations in Wisconsin: Within and between-year associations with predators, competitors, and habitat quality. Environmental Entomology 31: 1043-1051. [112 KB ]
2000 Aukema, B.H., Dahlsten, D.L., and K.F. Raffa. Improved population monitoring of bark beetles and predators by incorporating disparate behavioral responses to semiochemicals. Environmental Entomology 29: 618-629. [215 KB ]
2000 Aukema, B.H., Dahlsten, D.L., and K.F. Raffa. Exploiting behavioral disparities among predators and prey to selectively remove pests: Maximizing the ratio of bark beetles to predators removed during semiochemically based trap-out. Environmental Entomology 29: 651-660. [152 KB ]
2000 Aukema, and K.F. Raffa. Chemically mediated free space: Herbivores can synergize intraspecific communication without increasing risk of predation. Journal of Chemical Ecology 26: 1923-1939. [136 KB ]

Book chapters

2006 Hille Ris Lambers, J., Aukema, B.H., Diez, J., Evans, M., and A. Latimer. Effects of global change on inflorescence production: a Bayesian hierarchical analysis, pp. 59-73 in J.S. Clark and A. Gelfand (eds.), Hierarchical Modelling for the Environmental Sciences - Statistical Methods and Applications. Oxford University Press. 216 pp. [329 KB ]
2005 Raffa, K.F., Aukema, B.H., Erbilgin, N., Klepzig, K.D., and K.F. Wallin. Interactions among conifer terpenoids and bark beetles across multiple levels of scale: An attempt to understand links between population patterns and physiological processes. In: J.T. Romeo (ed.), Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, Elsevier, 39: 79-118.