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Natural Enemy Interactions

Natural Enemy Interactions is a conceptual framework in bark beetle ecology and pest dynamics that identifies and characterizes the ecological relationships between bark beetles and their antagonistic organisms, such as predators, parasitoids, and pathogens, by delineating the mechanisms and outcomes of trophic and regulatory interactions that influence beetle population dynamics and forest ecosystem stability.

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Interactions Among Three Trophic Levels: Influence of Plants on Interactions Between Insect Herbivores and Natural Enemies

Peter W. Price, Carl E. Bouton, Paul M. Gross et al. · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · 1980 · 2.3K citations

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On the role of natural enemies in preventing competitive exclusion in some marine animals and in rain forest trees

J. H. Connell · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1971 · 2.1K citations

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Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

Kenneth F. Raffa, Brian H. Aukema, Barbara Bentz et al. · BioScience · 2008 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Ecological functions and ecosystem services provided by Scarabaeinae dung beetles

Elizabeth Nichols, Sacha Spector, Júlio Louzada et al. · Biological Conservation · 2008 · 1.3K citations

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Facultative bacterial symbionts in aphids confer resistance to parasitic wasps

Kerry M. Oliver, Jacob A. Russell, Nancy A. Moran et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2003 · 1.3K citations

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  1. KF
    Kenneth F. Raffa

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    36 publications · 4.2K citations

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  2. JH
    John H. Borden

    Simon Fraser University, Canada

    26 publications · 758 citations

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  3. KD
    Kier D. Klepzig

    Southern Research Station, United States

    15 publications · 921 citations

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  4. DL
    Diana L. Six

    University of Montana, United States

    15 publications · 1K citations

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  5. JC
    John C. Moser

    US Forest Service, United States

    16 publications · 714 citations

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  1. US Forest Service

    Washington, United States

    35 h-index

    147 publications

    5.5K citations

  2. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

    Uppsala, Sweden

    34 h-index

    121 publications

    6K citations

  3. Southern Research Station

    Asheville, United States

    29 h-index

    65 publications

    3.5K citations

  4. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    28 h-index

    111 publications

    8.9K citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    27 h-index

    98 publications

    4.2K citations

  6. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    24 h-index

    77 publications

    4.5K citations

  7. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

    23 h-index

    98 publications

    4.6K citations

  8. Agricultural Research Service

    Washington, United States

    22 h-index

    59 publications

    2.1K citations

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  1. Environmental Entomology

    154 publications · 6K citations

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  2. Oecologia

    44 publications · 3.4K citations

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  3. Journal of Chemical Ecology

    61 publications · 3.2K citations

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  4. Journal of Economic Entomology

    110 publications · 3.4K citations

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  5. Biological Control

    74 publications · 3.3K citations

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