Program
| MSC2 | Friedman 153; 8:00 am - 10:00 am, July 28 |
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| Title | Modeling of forest insect population dynamics - Part I |
| Organizers | Mario Pineda-Krch |
| Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta | |
| James Powell | |
| Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University | |
| Mark Lewis | |
| Centre for Mathematical Biology, University of Alberta | |
| Abstract | North America is experiencing an onslaught of outbreaks by destructive forest pest species, e.g. the current mountain pine beetle epidemic in British Columbia is the largest bark beetle outbreak in recorded history affecting more than 15 million hectares of pine forests. To develop more effective strategies for forecasting and mitigating outbreaks it is critical to develop a clearer understanding of the invasion process and the underlying processes that generate outbreaks and drive the population dynamics of these species. This Special Interdisciplinary Minisymposium brings together researchers working on the population dynamics of forest insects using experimental and theoretical approaches. The symposium will showcase a diverse set of cutting-edge mathematical, computational, and statistical approaches as well as present empirically and quantitative based case studies. |
| Speaker 1 | Brian Aukema |
| Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service & University of Northern British Columbia | |
| Spatial-Temporal Statistical Modeling of Outbreaks of Mountain Pine Beetle | |
| Speaker 2 | Barry Cooke |
| Northern Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service | |
| Climate change and the emergence and spread of forest insect 'superspecies' | |
| Speaker 3 | Greg Dwyer |
| Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago | |
| Models of pathogen-driven outbreaks that are motivated by experiments | |
| Speaker 4 | Jacques Régnière |
| Laurentian Forestry Centre, Canada Forest Service | |
| Comparative Empirical Models of Local Population Dynamics for Three Conifer-Feeding Budworms |
Link to Part II - MSD2
-- Minisymposium talks are scheduled for 30 min each, including time for questions.