- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Forests cover approximately 30 percent of the Earth's landmass and provide important ecosystem services that include food, fuel, and timber, as well as habitat for diverse organisms. Threats posed to forests by invasive and pestiferous species are rapidly growing. Global change, an umbrella term that includes may human-mediated processes such as climate change and international trade, is altering the structure and functioning of forests."
So writes forest entomologist Todd Johnson assistant professor at Louisiana State University, in the abstract of his seminar, to be hosted Monday, Jan. 29 by the UC Davis Department of Entomology...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Forest entomologist Todd Johnson assistant professor at Louisiana State University, will speak on "Characterizing Ecological Interactions of Arthropods in Forests under Global Change"at the next seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
He will deliver his seminar at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Jan. 29 in 122 Briggs and on Zoom. The Zoom link:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672.
"Forests cover approximately 30 percent of the Earth's landmass and provide important ecosystem services that include food, fuel, and timber, as well as habitat for diverse...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
Noted forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steven Jon Seybold, a lecturer and researcher with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a research entomologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis, died Friday, Nov. 15 at Sacramento Sutter Hosptital of a heart condition. He was 60.
Born Oct. 14, 1959 in Madison, Wisc., he was one of the pioneering scientists researching the newly discovered thousand cankers disease (TCD), caused by the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, in association with the canker-producing fungus, Geosmithia morbida. He was a worldwide...
- Author: Kathy Keatley Garvey
We are all saddened by the death of noted forest entomologist and chemical ecologist Steven Jon Seybold, a lecturer and researcher with the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a research entomologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Davis.
Steve passed away Friday, Nov. 15 at a Sacramento hospital of a heart condition. Born in 1959 in Madison, Wisconsin, he was 60 years old. He was one of the pioneering scientists researching the newly discovered thousand cankers disease (TCD), caused by the walnut twig beetle, Pityophthorus juglandis, in association with the canker-producing...