Dr. Staffan Lindgren

Photo: J. Clarke	Research interests Chemical Ecology of Insects, particularly bark beetles, wood borers, and weevils Factors affecting conifer susceptibility to insect attack Forest Insect Ecology, particularly effects by insects on forest succession, and effects by forest management on insect fauna, in particular ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) and ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Forest Insect Management
Courses taught FSTY 307 Forest health (Team-taught with Dr. Kathy Lewis, UNBC) BIOL 202 Invertebrate zoology BIOL 322 Entomology BIOL 421 Insects, fungi, and society (Co-taught) NRES 733 Plant-Animal Interactions	Photo: C. Alexander

Research

• Population studies of the western conifer seed bug using mark release recapture methods (Tamara Richardson, MSc (NRES), In progress)
• Competitive interactions between ants and ground beetles (Kendra Schotzko, MSc (NRES), In progress)

• Taxonomy, form,or function: Evaluating three approaches to using carabid beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) as bioindicators in a coastal forest (Sean Henderson, MSc (NRES), Completed September 17, 2010)
• The ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) communities of the Central Interior of British Columbia: Adaptations to a temperature-constrained environment.(Rob Higgins, Ph.D. (NRES), Completed April 2010)
• Factors affecting the carabid (Coleoptera: Carabidae) community in successional sub boreal spruce forests, with special reference to their interaction with ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).(Duncan McColl, M.Sc. (NRES), Completed May 2010)
• Geographic variation in the effect of lodgepole pine characteristics on mountain pine beetle attacks and productivity in British Columbia (Timothy J. Cudmore, M.Sc. (NRES), completed May 2009)
• Effects of host quality parameters on fitness of the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) Marnie L. Graf, M.Sc. (NRES), completed April 2009))
• Life history of Pseudips mexicanus and interaction with the mountain pine beetle (Greg Smith, M.Sc. (NRES), completed July 2008 [Co-supervised with Allan L. Carroll, CFS])
• Effect of stress factors on incidence and severity of attack by the Warren root collar weevil on planted lodgepole pine (Jeanne A. Robert, M.Sc. (NRES), completed May 2004)
• Factors affecting susceptibility of subalpine fir to western balsam bark beetle, Dryocoetes confusus (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) (Katherine P. Bleiker, M.Sc.(NRES), completed January 2001).
• Variation in lodgepole pine susceptibility to pitch moth (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae and Pyralidae) attack at the Prince George Tree Improvement Station (Lynn A. Rocchini, M.Sc., completed November 1997).
• Species and assemblage responses of Carabidae (Coleoptera) to forest harvesting: Contrasting clearcut and patch retention removals in high-elevation forests of central British Columbia (Jeffrey P. Lemieux, M.Sc., completed March 1998).
• Relationship between white spruce vulnerability to the white pine weevil and ecological site conditions in the interior of British Columbia (Stuart P. Taylor, M.Sc. completed March 1997).

• Ants of central interior British Columbia: A study of their abundance, diversity, and ecological significance
• Ants as food for grizzly bears (with Lana Ciarniello)

• Natural Resources and Environmental Studies Institute
• Chemical Ecology Research Group

• Entomological Society of America
• Entomological Society of Canada
• Entomological Society of British Columbia
• Professional Pest Management Association of British Columbia
• International Society of Chemical Ecology
• Western Forest Insect Work Conference
• Canadian Institute of Forestry
• Federation of BC Naturalists
• International Union for the Study of Social Insects
• Canadian Society for Ecology and Evolution