Author(s): Noor S; Despland E; Montoro Girona M; Work T;

Wood processing, mining, and recreational infrastructures facilitate the transport and establishment of woodboring insects. Longhorn beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) are woodborers that typically develop in stressed or dead trees and are inadvertently transported in wood products, creating opportunities for exotic species to invade and expand their rang ...

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Author(s): Yataco AP; Noor S; Girona MM; Work T; Despland E;

In managed boreal forests, both plantations and natural regeneration are used to re-establish a cohort of conifer trees following harvest or disturbance. Young trees in open plantations generally grow more rapidly than under forest canopies, but more rapid growth could be compromised by greater insect damage. We compared insect damage on white spruce (Pic ...

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Author(s): Despland E

Traits of chemically-defended animals can change as an individual grows and matures, and both theoretical and empirical evidence favour a direction of change from crypsis to aposematism. This study examines the suite of traits involved in an unusual opposite shift from aposematism to crypsis in a neotropical toxic-plant-feeding Romaleid grasshopper, Chrom ...

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Author(s): Despland E, Santacruz PG

PeerJ. 2020;8:e8782 Authors: Despland E, Santacruz PG

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Author(s): Fuentealba A, Pureswaran D, Bauce É, Despland E

Oecologia. 2017 08;184(4):847-857 Authors: Fuentealba A, Pureswaran D, Bauce É, Despland E

Article GUID: 28756489

Author(s): Donkor D, Mirzahosseini Z, Bede J, Bauce E, Despland E

PLoS One. 2019;14(5):e0208288 Authors: Donkor D, Mirzahosseini Z, Bede J, Bauce E, Despland E

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