Climate change and the spread of genotypes of forest pests from South to North
Abstract
The research of both institutes targets spruce and fir bark beetle species and gypsy moth as these pest complexes pose problems in Croatia and Austria. The Dinaric area is of particular interest due to the existence of refugial areas during the last ice ages. In these areas unique genotypes can be detected. Several projects have shown that genotypes increasingly migrate to the North in the last decades (for review Hewitt 2000). Further, these zones with higher genetic diversity are interesting in that natural enemies of insects like pathogens are often present in higher variation (Coakley et al. 1999). In this project we will concentrate on two bark beetle species and a lymantrid moth i.e. Pityogenes chalcographus, two Pityokteines species and the lepidopteran pest Lymantria dispar.
Publikationen
Project staff
Christian Stauffer
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Christian Stauffer
christian.stauffer@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91631
Project Leader
01.01.2010 - 31.12.2011
Hannes Schuler
DDipl.Ing. Dr. Hannes Schuler
hannes.schuler@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.01.2010 - 31.12.2011
Rudolf Wegensteiner
Ao.Univ.Prof.i.R. Dr.phil. Rudolf Wegensteiner
rudolf.wegensteiner@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
01.01.2010 - 31.12.2011
BOKU partners
External partners
Forest Research Institute Jastrebarsko
Dr. Milan Pernek
partner