Managing Forests Affected by Invasive Species

Our research will provide increased understanding and management tools related to native and non-native invasive plants, insects, and diseases. We focus on the factors that cause forests to be invaded, including reasons that native plants become invasive, and risk mapping for invasions. We also study the response of forests to these invasions. Our management tools will help mangers predict and reduce the probability of invasion, and predict, manage and mitigate the impacts once invasions have begun. 

Selected Research

• Emerald Ash Borer
  • Ash Mortality due to Emerald Ash Borer
  • Degree of Emerald Ash Borer Infestation
  • Effects of Emerald Ash Borer on Forest Ecosystems
  • Modelling the Risk of EAB
  • A Living Laboratory at Dempsey Wetlands: Forest Ecology and Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) Research with Middle School Students
• Impacts of Beech Bark Disease 
• Ailanthus and Verticillium nonalfalfae
• Fires and Invasive Plants
• Native Invasive Species
• SILVAH NNIS (Non-native Invasive Species) Module
• Survival and Growth of Three Invasive Plant Species in Five Different Forest Management Regimes across a Moisture Gradient

For further information log on website :
http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/units/sustainingforests/focus/invasive_species/