Modeling Mountain Pine Beetle Abundance in Novel Hosts
Xie, X.; Brush, M.; Johnson, E.; Cullingham, C.; Duffy, J.; Lewis, M. A.
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The mountain pine beetle has recently expanded its range into northern and central Alberta, posing an immediate threat to the novel host, jack pine. To date, some experiments suggest that jack pine has limited defensive capabilities despite of the restrictions from the physical environment. In this work, we explore the susceptibility of jack pine compared to the primary host, lodgepole pine, evaluating the risk of potential range expansion into Canadas boreal forest. We employ a hierarchical model, incorporating environmental and ecological covariates, to examine mountain pine beetle dynamics in a pine forest with lodgepole, hybrid and jack pines. Our results show that pine species significantly influence the probability of being killed, with jack pine being less likely to be infested than lodgepole pine, all else being equal. The hierarchical model demonstrates that beetles perform poorer in jack pine, characterized by a reproduction rate 0.16 times that of non-jack pine. Although jack pine is a suitable host, our results indicate that the number of infestations in jack pine could be lower than in lodgepole pine, with a reduced probability of emerging beetles.
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