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Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday (July 12) announced the new and improved Alien Forest Pest Explorer interactive web tool. The user-friendly dashboard combines information from ...

Over the last century, emerging diseases have progressively been recognized by the scientific community as the main threat to forest ecosystems. With increasing international trade and globalization, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Purdue University and the U.S. Forest Service on Tuesday (July 12) announced the new and improved Alien Forest Pest Explorer interactive web tool. “We want to better understand ...

A broad-scale study of U.S. forest data suggests a significant - but not simple - relationship between the number of native tree species and the number of nonnative forest pests. "Invasive insects and ...

This chapter contains the committee’s definition of forest health, which includes ecological, economic, and sociocultural factors. It summarizes the threats facing North American forests from insect ...

Relationships between tree diversity and pest diversity follow a hump-shaped curve. That's the finding of a national study of US forests that compared two county-level data sets. A national-scale ...

Climate change is already reshaping the landscapes we know and love. Within the next century, the Antarctic could lose most of its ice, while climbing temperatures fuel devastating storms. Floods, ...