Brent Murray

Apr 4, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Kirsten Thompson |Brent Murray

AbstractMountain pine beetles began to appear at epidemic levels in Alberta, Canada, in 2006, following six years of extensive outbreaks in neighboring British Columbia. We assessed the effect of genetic MPB in-flights from the peak of the outbreak on the genetic structure of established populations of MPB and the change over time in novel regions colonized by these inflights. We used five locations sampled during the peak of the outbreak (2005/2007) and re-sampled in 2016.