"..This book will have broad appeal both as an essential resource for amateur and professional herpetologists as well as an informative guide for anyone interested in the background and biology of exotic amphibians and reptiles. Cumulatively, the species accounts offer up-to-date coverage that will be useful to land managers, state and federal agencies, conservation groups, and research ecologists interested in seeking further data on the ecological effects of exotic species on local habitats." --The Quarterly Review of Biology
Part I: Insect distributions and novel hosts 1. Climate change and invasion by non-native bark and ambrosia beetles 2. Complexities in predicting mountain pine beetle and spruce beetle response to climate change 3. Responses and modeling of southern pine beetle and its host pines to climate change
Part II: Interactions of insects with altered host physiology 4. The Eurasian spruce bark beetle in a warming climate: phenology, behaviour and biotic interactions 5. Southwestern examples 6. Relationships between drought, coniferous tree physiology, and Ips bark beetles under climatic changes
Part III: Interactions of insects with altered disturbance regimes 7. Interactions between catastrophic wind disturbances and bark beetles in forested ecosystems
Part IV: Ecosystem-level impacts of bark beetle outbreaks due to climate change 8. Bark beetle outbreaks alter biotic components of forested ecosystems 9. Eastern larch beetle, a changing climate, and impacts to northern tamarack forests
Part V: Multi-trophic changes mediated via climate change 10. Effects of rising temperatures on ectosymbiotic communities associated with bark and ambrosia beetles
Part VI: Management of bark beetles in altered forests and climate conditions 11. Management strategies to reduce bark beetle impacts in North America and Europe under altered forest and climatic conditions 12. Conclusions: interactions among climate, disturbance and bark beetles affect the forest landscapes of the future