Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-dsjbd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-28T11:29:03.071Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

FORESTS, DISTURBANCES, AND INSECTS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

J. M. McLeod
Affiliation:
Institute of Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver V6T 1W5

Abstract

Recent developments in ecological theory pertaining to the coexistence of insect species in response to forest disturbance are reviewed, and the findings are applied to the requirements for the Biological Survey of the Insects of Canada. It is important that a data collection system have a sound theoretical base, otherwise it will probably be found inadequate for the purpose for which it was designed. Questions about changes in faunal assemblages should be related to the scale of disturbance relative to the replacement time of the forest. Recommendations for research on faunal assemblage disturbance relationships are made for the Forest Insect and Disease Survey of Canada, and for the northern boreal forest.

Type
Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1980

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Auclair, A. N. and Goff, F. G.. 1971. Diversity relations of upland forests in the western Great Lakes area. Am. Nat. 105: 499528.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Baltzer, H. O. 1969. Forest character and vulnerability of balsam fir to spruce budworm in Minnesota. For. Sci. 15: 1725.Google Scholar
Blais, J. R. 1965. Spruce budworm outbreaks in the past three centuries in the Laurentide Park, Quebec. For. Sci. 11: 130138.Google Scholar
Bray, J. R. 1971. Vegetational distribution, tree growth, and crop success in relation to recent climatic change. Adv. ecol. Res. 7: 177254.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bromley, S. W. 1935. The original forest types of southern New England. Ecol. Monogr. 5: 6189.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Claridge, M. F. and Wilson, M. R.. 1978. British insects and trees: A study in island biogeography or insect/plant coevolution? Am. Nat. 112: 451456.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Connell, J. H. 1978. Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs. Science 199: 13021310.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Danks, H. V. (Ed.). 1979. Canada and its insect fauna. Mem. ent. Soc. Can. 108. 573 pp.Google Scholar
Downes, J. A. 1974. A pilot study for a biological survey of the insects of Canada. Bull. ent. Soc. Can. 9(1) (Suppl.).Google Scholar
Eggeling, W. J. 1947. Observations on the ecology of the Budongo rain forest, Uganda. J. Ecol. 34: 2087.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Heinselman, H. 1973. Fire in the virgin forests of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, Minnesota. Quat. Res. 3: 329382.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Henry, J. D. and Swan, J. M. A.. 1974. Reconstructing forest history from live and dead plant material and approach to the study of forest succession in southwest New Hampshire. Ecology 55: 772783.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holling, C. S. 1973. Resilience and stability of ecological systems. Ann. Rev. Ecol. System. 4: 123.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jones, E. W. 1956. Ecological studies on the rain forest of southern Nigeria. J. Ecol. 44: 83117.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kilgore, B. M. 1973. The ecological role of fire in sierran conifer forests: its application to National Park management. Quat. Res. 3: 496513.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Martin, P. S. 1973. The discovery of America. Science 179: 696974.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Peterman, R. M. 1978. The ecological role of mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine forests. In Berryman, A. A., Stark, R. W., and Amman, G. D. A. (Eds.), Mountain Pine beetle Management in Lodgepole Pine Forests. Univ. Idaho Press, Moscow.Google Scholar
Ritchie, J. C. 1977. The modern and late Quaternary vegetation of the Campbell-dolomite uplands near Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada. Ecol. Monogr. 47: 401423.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Smith, D. M. 1976. Changes in eastern forests since 1600 and possible effects. pp. 320in Anderson, J. F. and Kaya, H. K. (Eds.), Perspectives in Forest Entomology. Academic Press, London.Google Scholar
Southwood, T. R. E. 1961. The number of species of insects associated with trees. J. Anim. Ecol. 30: 18.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Southwood, T. R. E. 1973. The insect/plant relationships: an evolutionary perspective. pp. 310in van Emden, H. F. (Ed.), Insect/Plant Relationships. Symp. R. ent. Soc. 6.Google Scholar
Southwood, T. R. E. 1977. Entomology and mankind. Am. Sci. 65: 3039.Google ScholarPubMed
Strong, D. R. 1974. Rapid asymptotic species accumulation in phytophagous insect communities: the pests of cacao. Science 185: 10641066.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Strong, D. R. 1974. The insects of British trees: community equilibration in ecological time. Ann. Missouri bot. Gard. 61: 692701.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Strong, D. R. and Levin, D. A.. 1975. Species richness of the parasitic fungi of British trees. Proc. natn. Acad. Sci. 72: 21162119.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Swain, A. M. 1973. A history of fire and vegetation in northeastern Minnesota as recorded in lake sediments. Quat. Res. 3: 383396.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taylor, D. L. 1973. 707 in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Ecology 54: 13941396.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Watt, K. E. F. 1968. A computer approach to analysis of data on weather, population fluctuations, and disease. pp. 145149in Lowry, W. P. (Ed.), 28th A. Biol. Coll. Oregon State Univ.Google Scholar
Webb, W. L., Behrend, D. L., and Saisorn, B.. 1977. The effect of logging on songbird populations in a northern hardwood forest. Wildl. Monogr. 55. 35 pp.Google Scholar