The surprising lives of bark beetles [electronic resource] : mighty foresters of the insect world / Jiri Hulcr and Marc Abrahams.
Famous foe of forestry professionals and despised spreader of Dutch elm disease, bark beetles have a bad reputation: the World's Worst Forest Pests. They chew through timber profits and kill healthy trees, turning forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources. But entomologist Jiri Hulcr sees more t...
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Language: | English |
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Gainesville, FL :
University of Florida Press,
[2022]
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Bark beetles
The Surprising Lives of Bark Beetles: Mighty Foresters of the Insect World |
Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- Who's normal?
- The food of gods
- In the eye of the beholder
- Ecosystem engineers
- Why you, too, should study bark beetles.