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Dendroctonus ponderosae

Common names: mountain pine beetle, bark beetle

Taxonomy: Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Coleoptera > Curculionidae

Roles: ecosystem disruptor, pest species, pest

ITIS TSN: 114918

Synonyms: bark beetle, mountain pine beetle

External: RMBL Collections · iNaturalist · iDigBio · GenBank

Papers: 38 | Mentions: 62

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 76 entities)

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Publications (39)

article

Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability

2025Hydrology and Earth System ScienceRole: text_match

article

Opportunistic short-term water uptake dynamics by subalpine trees observed via in situ water isotope measurements

2025Water Resources ResearchRole: text_match

article

Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem

2025BiogeosciencesRole: text_match

thesis

Forest composition and structural controls on canopy snow interception in a Colorado watershed

2024Role: text_match

article

Model and remote-sensing-guided experimental design and hypothesis generation for monitoring snow-soil–plant interactions

2024Frontiers in WaterRole: text_match

student_paper

Stem and canopy growth analysis in Picea Engelmannii with UAVs and field measurements

2024Role: text_match

student_paper

Effects of Altitude on the Growth, Mortality, and Recruitment of Subalpine Tree Species in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado.

2023Role: text_match

Documents (13)

environmental assessment

Draft Report Fossil Ridge Wilderness Study Area

technical report

Environmental Decision-Making in the United States Forest Service: the Decision Maker and the Guidelines

Document

Forest Plan for 15 Plus Years

federal register notice

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District Saratoga, WY

federal register notice

Rocky Mountain Region: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Eastern Wyoming; Legal Notice of the Opportunity To Comment on Certain Proposed Actions and of Decisions Subject to Notice and Comment

federal rule

Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; Applicability to the National Forests in Colorado

federal register notice

Spruce Beetle Epidemic and Aspen Decline Management Response; Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests (GMUG), Colorado

technical report

Sudden Aspen Decline in Colorado

environmental assessment

Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement

environmental assessment

Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement

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Co-occurring Species

chapter

Silviculture

2023Role: pest species

student_paper

Combined Effects of Aridity and Herbivory on Plant Performance

2022Role: text_match

article

Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream

2022Water research XRole: text_match

article

Effect of elevation, season and accelerated snowmelt on biogeochemical processes during isolated conifer needle litter decomposition

2021PeerJRole: text_match

thesis

From tree to tap: The impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes during conifer needle distribution and broader implications for water quality in Colorado

2021Role: text_match

article

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

2021Global Change BiologyRole: text_match

article

A comparison of lodgepole and spruce needle chemistry impacts on terrestrial biogeochemical processes during isolated decomposition

2020PeerJRole: ecosystem disruptor

article

Efficiency of the Summer Monsoon in Generating Streamflow Within a Snow-Dominated Headwater Basin of the Colorado River

2020Geophysical Research Letters. DOI 10.1029/2020GL090856Role: text_match

article

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

2020Environmental Research LettersRole: text_match

article

Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed

2020Communications Earth & Environment. DOI: 10.1038/s43247-020-00039-wRole: text_match

thesis

Abiotic and biotic factors influencing western United States coniferous forests

2019Digital Collections of Colorado (Colorado State University)Role: text_match

article

Exploring source water mixing and transient residence time distributions of outflow and evapotranspiration with an integrated hydrologic model and Lagrangian particle tracking approach

2019EcohydrologyRole: text_match

article

The importance of interflow to groundwater recharge in a snowmelt-dominated headwater basin

2019Geophysical ResearchRole: text_match

article

Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction in a Subalpine Meadow

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match

article

Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins

2018Hydrological ProcessesRole: text_match

other

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match

article

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

2018Mountain ViewsRole: text_match

student_paper

How does experimental warming effect the rate of herbivory and fungi on host grasses?

2017Role: text_match

article

Snowmelt controls on concentration-discharge relationships and the balance of oxidative and acid-base weathering fluxes in an alpine catchment, East River, Colorado

2017Water Resources ResearchRole: text_match

article

Contrasting the hydrologic response due to land cover and climate change in a mountain headwaters system

2016EcohydrologyRole: text_match

article

The fingerprints of global climate change on insect populations

2016Current Opinion in Insect ScienceRole: text_match

thesis

Propagating climate and vegetation change through the hydrologic cycle in a mountain headwaters catchment.

2015Role: text_match

article

AN EVALUATION OF MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE OUTBREAKS IN COLORADO AND WYOMING UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE USING GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS

2011DukeSpace (Duke University)Role: text_match

article

Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA

2011Applied GeochemistryRole: study subject / disturbance ag

article

Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA

2011Applied GeochemistryRole: text_match

article

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

2010Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesRole: text_match

article

Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution

2010Phil. Trans. R. Soc. BRole: text_match

article

Using tree rings to predict the response of tree growth to climate change in the continental United States during the twenty-first century

2010Earth InteractionsRole: text_match

article

Phoretic mite discrimination among male burying beetle (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>) hosts

2008Annals of the Entomological Society of AmericaRole: text_match

article

The effect of fires on susceptibility of subalpine forests to a 19th century spruce beetle outbreak in western Colorado

2006Canadian Journal of Forest ResearchRole: text_match

article

Subalpine forest carbon cycling: Short- and long-term influence of climate and species

2005Ecological ApplicationsRole: text_match

article

Concentration of glucosinolates in relation to habitat and insect herbivory for the native crucifer Cardamine cordifolia

1983Biochemical Systematics and EcologyRole: text_match

management plan

The Fossil Ridge Wilderness a proposal

technical report

Trees for Conservation: A Buyers Guide

technical report

Dendroctonus ponderosae

Local Knowledge Graph (Top 76 entities)

Publications (39)

Canopy structure modulates the sensitivity of subalpine forest stands to interannual snowpack and precipitation variability

Opportunistic short-term water uptake dynamics by subalpine trees observed via in situ water isotope measurements

Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem

Forest composition and structural controls on canopy snow interception in a Colorado watershed

Model and remote-sensing-guided experimental design and hypothesis generation for monitoring snow-soil–plant interactions

Stem and canopy growth analysis in Picea Engelmannii with UAVs and field measurements

Effects of Altitude on the Growth, Mortality, and Recruitment of Subalpine Tree Species in the West Elk Mountains of Colorado.

Documents (13)

Draft Report Fossil Ridge Wilderness Study Area

Environmental Decision-Making in the United States Forest Service: the Decision Maker and the Guidelines

Forest Plan for 15 Plus Years

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District Saratoga, WY

Rocky Mountain Region: Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Eastern Wyoming; Legal Notice of the Opportunity To Comment on Certain Proposed Actions and of Decisions Subject to Notice and Comment

Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; Applicability to the National Forests in Colorado

Spruce Beetle Epidemic and Aspen Decline Management Response; Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests (GMUG), Colorado

Sudden Aspen Decline in Colorado

Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Summary of the Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Co-occurring Species

Beetles

Pinus contorta

Populus tremuloides

Picea engelmannii

Abies lasiocarpa

Dendroctonus rufipennis

Pinus ponderosa

Picea/Abies spp.

Pseudotsuga menziesii

Populus

Silviculture

Combined Effects of Aridity and Herbivory on Plant Performance

Disinfection byproducts formed during drinking water treatment reveal an export control point for dissolved organic matter in a subalpine headwater stream

Effect of elevation, season and accelerated snowmelt on biogeochemical processes during isolated conifer needle litter decomposition

From tree to tap: The impacts of climate change on biogeochemical processes during conifer needle distribution and broader implications for water quality in Colorado

Lagged and dormant season climate better predict plant vital rates than climate during the growing season

A comparison of lodgepole and spruce needle chemistry impacts on terrestrial biogeochemical processes during isolated decomposition

Efficiency of the Summer Monsoon in Generating Streamflow Within a Snow-Dominated Headwater Basin of the Colorado River

Satellite-derived foresummer drought sensitivity of plant productivity in Rocky Mountain headwater catchments: spatial heterogeneity and geological-geomorphological control

Significant stream chemistry response to temperature variations in a high-elevation mountain watershed

Abiotic and biotic factors influencing western United States coniferous forests

Exploring source water mixing and transient residence time distributions of outflow and evapotranspiration with an integrated hydrologic model and Lagrangian particle tracking approach

The importance of interflow to groundwater recharge in a snowmelt-dominated headwater basin

Climate Warming Drives Local Extinction in a Subalpine Meadow

Factors Controlling Seasonal Groundwater and Solute Flux from Snow-Dominated Basins

Rocky Mountain Biological Lab. Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology spatially explicit

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic CO Ecology of Place: Making Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Spatially Explicit

How does experimental warming effect the rate of herbivory and fungi on host grasses?

Snowmelt controls on concentration-discharge relationships and the balance of oxidative and acid-base weathering fluxes in an alpine catchment, East River, Colorado

Contrasting the hydrologic response due to land cover and climate change in a mountain headwaters system

The fingerprints of global climate change on insect populations

Propagating climate and vegetation change through the hydrologic cycle in a mountain headwaters catchment.

AN EVALUATION OF MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE OUTBREAKS IN COLORADO AND WYOMING UNDER CLIMATE CHANGE USING GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS

Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA

Responses of soil and water chemistry to mountain pine beetle induced tree mortality in Grand County, Colorado, USA

Forest responses to increasing aridity and warmth in the southwestern United States

Toward a synthetic understanding of the role of phenology in ecology and evolution

Using tree rings to predict the response of tree growth to climate change in the continental United States during the twenty-first century

Phoretic mite discrimination among male burying beetle (<i>Nicrophorus investigator</i>) hosts

The effect of fires on susceptibility of subalpine forests to a 19th century spruce beetle outbreak in western Colorado

Subalpine forest carbon cycling: Short- and long-term influence of climate and species

Concentration of glucosinolates in relation to habitat and insect herbivory for the native crucifer Cardamine cordifolia

The Fossil Ridge Wilderness a proposal

Trees for Conservation: A Buyers Guide

Trees for Conservation: A Buyers Guide