María J. Lombardero

Postdoctoral Associate, Dartmouth College
1999-2000


Present Address: Professor, Departmento de Produccíon Vegetal, Universidad de Santiago, Escuela Polotécnica Superior, Campus de Lugo, 27002 Lugo, Spain   Webpage

Lombardero, M.J., M.P. Ayres, and B.D. Ayres.  2006.  Effects of fire and mechanical wounding on Pinus resinosa resin defenses, beetle attacks, and pathogensForest Ecology & Management 225: 349-358.

Veysey, J. S., M. P. Ayres, M. J. Lombardero, R. W. Hofstetter, and K. Klepzig. 2003. Relative suitability of Virginia pine and loblolly pine as host species for Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Environmental Entomology 32: 668-679.

Lombardero, M.J., M. P. Ayres, R. W. Hofstetter, J.C. Moser, and K.D. Klepzig. 2003. Strong indirect interactions of Tarsonemus mites (Acarina, Tarsonemidae) and  Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Oikos 102: 243-252.

Lombardero, M.J., M.P. Ayres, P.L. Lorio, Jr., and J.J. Ruel. 2000. Environmental effects on constitutive and inducible resin defenses of loblolly pine. Ecology Letters 3:329-339.

Santoro, A.E., M.J. Lombardero, M.P. Ayres, and J.J. Ruel. 2000. Interactions between fire and bark beetles in an old growth pine forest. Forest Ecology & Management, in press.

Ayres, M.P., and M.J. Lombardero.2000. Assessing the consequences of climate change for forest herbivore and pathogens. The Science of the Total Environment 262:263-286.

Lombardero, M., M.P. Ayres, B.D. Ayres, and J.D. Reeve. 2000. Cold tolerance of four species of bark beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) in North America. Environmental Entomology 29:421-432.

Lombardero, M.J., K.D. Klepzig, J.C. Moser, and M.P. Ayres. 2000. Biology, demography, and community interactions of Tarsonemus (Acarina: Tarsonemidae) mites phoretic on Dendroctonus frontalis (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Agricultural and Forest Entomology 2:193-202.

Ayres, M.P., Wilkens, R.T., Ruel, J.J., M.J. Lombardero, and E. Vallery. 2000. Nitrogen budgets of phloem-feeding bark beetles with and without symbiotic fungi (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Ecology 81:2198-2210.

Ungerer, M.J., M.P. Ayres, and M.J. Lombardero. 1999. Climate and the northern distribution limits of Dendroctonus frontalis Zimmermann (Coleoptera: Scolytidae). Journal of Biogeography 26:1133-1145.

Ayres, M.P., M.J. Lombardero, B.D. Ayres, and A.E. Santoro. 1999. The biology and management of bark beetles in old growth pine forests of Itasca State Park. Great Lakes Institute for Pine Ecosystem Research, Colfax, Wisconsin. 128 pp.

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