Researcher position available with us at NIBIO: jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillin…

New paper out: effects of MeJA treatment and subsequent challenge by wounding on the Norway spruce miRNA transcriptome. Great cooperation between @NIBIO_no and The University of Sheffield👍. Open access in Plant Gene: doi.org/10.1016/j.plge…

Congratulations to my former student Sifat Munim Tanin @UniNMBU who just published his MSc project. Using clever bioassays Sifat showed that bark beetles actively seek out their fungal associates. Open access at: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Our 'highly-contiguous genome assembly' of the spruce bark beetle Ips typographus is now officially published. 236.8 Mb | 272 contigs | 23,923 predicted genes Lead by Lund University, SLU Alnarp and ČZU. doi.org/10.1038/s42003…

Great opportunity to present your research at the #IUFRODivision7 meeting in Lisboa:

3-year Postdoc on #Ipstypographus outbreak dynamics posted today, at NIBIO, Ås, Norway. Focus on improving existing/developing new forest simulation models implementing forest management & climate scenarios to assess effects on bark beetle outbreak risk jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

On the mechanisms of long-term defense priming in Arabidopsis. In Nature Plants: rdcu.be/c2P7e. Another great result of our collaboration with Prof. Jurriaan Ton, Samuel Wilkinson and others at The University of Sheffield and elsewhere.

Bluestain fungi associated with bark beetles release beetle semiochemicals - especially if fungi have access to fatty acids such as linoleic acid. Nice new publication out in Journal of Chemical Ecology link.springer.com/article/10.100… #maskotlib, International Society of Chemical Ecology

Mattson & Niemela's "European crucible" revisited: why are so many more insects invading N-Am. from Europe than the other way around? New preprint out now.

You can help secure Open Access of a new Chemical Ecology Textbook written by an international team of experts: gofund.me/1502a2fc

Bark beetle host choice experiment: "Ips typographus will find abundant and highly suitable hosts in North America, while D. rufipennis in Europe may experience reduced reproductive success in Norway spruce". New paper out: 10.1093/forestry/cpad015

Det blir også et seminar om "vaksinering" av småplanter mot snutebilleangrep m.m.

Zemědělství ČR @marcuslindner_ European Forest Institute (EFI) EuropeanForestOwners ČZU @bfwald Julius Kühn-Institut @NIBIO_no NIBIO Forest Health @LukeFinlandInt One of the lessons learned in our workshop is what Paal Krokene discussed yesterday: "Business-as-usual scenarios with even-aged spruce management may be turned upside down when the risk of #barkbeetle epidemics is factored in". #FoRISK #forests #Europe #forestrisk #prevention

The last 3 days have been intensive learning and sharing of good & bad practices of #barkbeetle management for the participants of 16 countries present at our workshop. Lessons learned will help prevent & better prepare for #forestrisk and will be made available soon. #FoRISK

The Norwegian bark beetle monitoring website is now available in English. Check it out: bit.ly/42kGqli. 45 years of pheromone trapping of Ips typographus in 120+ localities per year.

More lessons learned in our workshop on managing biotic threats in #forests in Europe. For the speaker Dr. Gernot Hoch, even though affected forests (by #barkbeetle outbreaks) have a protective function against natural hazards, climate change has aggravated the situation.

Invasive Species have HUGE impacts #ipbes10 ✨60% of recorded extinctions are due at least in part to invasive species ✨Known costs are annually in the U$D billions, but likely in the trillions ✨Costs are increasing 4X per decade ✨Invasions have deep impact on quality of life

Barkbilleovervåkingen 2023: fangstene av stor granbarkbille økte i det meste av landet. I Oppland er fangstene de største som noen gang er registrert. For Sør-Norge som helhet er årets fangster de største siden 1994. nibio.no/nyheter/uvanli…

Did European insects invade the world because settlers carried plants? New paper out with collaborators from around the world. Special thanks to Rylee Isitt UNB blog.pensoft.net/2024/01/10/did… via Pensoft

New paper out: What determines spruce bark beetle numbers in boreal forests under endemic conditions? Model study using data from the Norwegian bark beetle monitoring program (17 yrs of trapping, 1731 trap-year comb.). doi.org/10.1111/1365-2… Journal of Applied Ecology @NIBIO_no