Publications

In Progress

2015	Koopmans, J.M., Carroll, A.L., and B.H. Aukema. Temporal associations between Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, and non-eruptive species of bark beetles in stands of lodgepole pine in southern British Columbia. Presubmission review.
2015	Koopmans, J.M., Carroll, A.L., and B.H. Aukema. Spatial associations of mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae with secondary bark beetles in the endemic to incipient-epidemic phase transition. Presubmission review.
2015	Koopmans, J.M., Carroll, A.L., and B.H. Aukema. Spatial ecology of the secondary bark beetles Dendroctonus murrayanae, Hylurgops spp., Ips pini, Orthotomicus latidens and Pseudips mexicanus in lodgepole pine stands of southern British Columbia, Canada. Presubmission review.
2015	Fahrner, S.J., Albers, J., Albers, M., Lanigan, T., Murphy, R., Raffa, K.F., and B.H. Aukema. Do recent episodes of jack pine budworm feeding on red pine represent a new management risk by this historical monophage? In revision.
2015	Sambaraju, K., Carroll, A.L., and B.H. Aukema. Climate-associated range shifts of mountain pine beetle preceding a hyperepidemic. In revision.
2015	Aukema, B.H., McKee, F.R., Wytrykush, D.L., and A.L. Carroll. Population dynamics and epidemiology of bark beetles: 100 years since J.M. Swaine. In review.
2015	Therrien, J., Mason, C.J., Adams, A., Aukema, B.H., Currie, C.R., Raffa, K.F., and N. Erbilgin. Bacteria influence mountain pine beetle brood development through interactions with symbiotic and opportunistic fungi: implications to climate-driven host range expansion. Oecologia Accepted pending revision.
2015	Christianson, L.D.E., Venette, R.C., Aukema, B.H., and R.L. Koch. Instar determination for Epiphyas postvittana (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae): application of mixed distribution analysis techniques. Environmental Entomology Accepted pending revision.
2015	Fahrner, S.J., Lelito, J.P., and B.H. Aukema. The role of laboratory and regional climate in the flight capacity of emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis and its parasitoid Tetrastichus planipennisi. BioControl. In press.
2015	McKee, F.R. and B.H. Aukema. Successful reproduction by eastern larch beetle progeny in the absence of an overwintering period. The Canadian Entomologist In press.

Refereed Papers

2017	Samuel J. Fahrner, Mark Abrahamson, Robert C. Venette, and Brian H. Aukema. Strategic removal of host trees in isolated, satellite infestations of emerald ash borer can reduce population growth. Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 24 (2017) 184-194.
2015	McKee, F.R., Huber, D.P.W., Hodgkinson, R.S., Lindgren, B.S., and B.H. Aukema. Effect of natal and present host on female mountain pine beetle host acceptance and male joining behaviour in lodgepole pine vs. interior hybrid spruce. The Canadian Entomologist 147: 39-45.
2015	McKee, F.R. and B.H. Aukema. Influence of temperature on the reproductive success, brood development, and brood fitness of the eastern larch beetle, Dendroctonus simplex LeConte. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 17: 102-112.
2014	Fahrner, S.J., Lelito, J.P., Blaedow, K., Heimpel, G.E., and B.H. Aukema. Factors affecting the flight capacity of Tetrastichus planipennisi (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), a classical biological control agent of emerald ash borer Agrilus planipennis (Coleoptera: Bupresidae). Environmental Entomology. 43: 1603-1612.
2013	McKee, F.R., Huber, D.P.W., and B.H. Aukema. Effect of host species and competitors on mountain pine beetle reproduction in interior hybrid spruce vs. lodgepole pine. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 15: 310-320.
2013	Adams, A.S., Adams, S.M., Suen, G., Aylward, F., Erbilgin, N. Aukema, B.H., Currie, C.R., and K. F. Raffa. Mountain pine beetles colonizing historical and naïve host trees are associated with a bacterial community highly enriched in genes contributing to terpene metabolism. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 79: 3468-3475.
2012	Reyes, P.E., Zhu, J., and B.H. Aukema. Regression analysis of spatial-temporal lattice data: assessing the impact of climate on a mountain pine beetle outbreak. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics (special Climate Change issue). 17: 508-525.
2012	Machial, L.A., Lindgren, B.S., and B.H. Aukema. The role of vision in host selection of Warren root collar weevil, Hylobius warreni Wood. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 14: 286-294.
2012	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. Journal of Biogeography 39: 1112-1123.
2012	Sambaraju, K., Carroll, A.L., Zhu, J., Stahl, K., Moore, R.D. and B.H. Aukema. Climate change could alter the distribution of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Canada. Ecography 35: 211-223.
2012	Machial, L.A., Lindgren, B.S., Steenweg, R., and B.H. Aukema. Movement patterns of Warren root collar weevil, Hylobius warreni Wood, in three types of habitat. Environmental Entomology 41: 578-586.
2012	Graf, M.L., Reid, M.L., Aukema, B.H., and B.S. Lindgren. Association of tree diameter with body size and lipid content of mountain pine beetles. The Canadian Entomologist 144:467-477.
2011	de la Giroday, H.-M., Carroll, A.L., Lindgren, B.S., and B.H. Aukema. Incoming! Association of landscape features with dispersing mountain pine beetle populations during a range expansion event in western Canada. Landscape Ecology 26: 1097-1110.
2011	Boone, C.K., Aukema, B.H., Bohlmann, J., Carroll, A.L., and K.F. Raffa. Efficacy of plant defenses varies with herbivore population density: a basis for positive feedback in eruptive species. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 41: 1174-1188.
2010	Zheng, Y. and B.H. Aukema. Hierarchical dynamic modeling of outbreaks of mountain pine beetle using partial differential equations. Environmetrics 21: 801-816.
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. 136: 66-71.
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 39: 874-882.
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 39: 898-906.
2010	Klingenberg, M.D., Lindgren, B.S., Gillingham, M.P., and Brian H. Aukema. Management response to one insect pest may increase vulnerability to another. Journal of Applied Ecology 47: 566-574.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 besetle? Oecologia 138(2): 253-258.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Book Chapters

2014	Tobin, P.C., Parry, D., and B.H. Aukema. Insect invasions and climate change in forest ecosystems, in Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century, Trevor Fenning, ed. Springer. 838 pp.
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.
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.