Forest disturbances caused by pest insects are threatening ecosystem stability, sustainable forest management and economic return in boreal forests. Climate change and increased extreme weather patterns can magnify the intensity of forest disturbances, particularly at higher latitudes. Due to rapid responses to elevating temperatures, forest insect pests can flexibly change their survival, disp...

to yield reductions (Higley, 1992; Hunt et al., 1994; Haile et al., 1998). Hunt et al. (1994) concluded that removal Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] producers in many regions of of leaf area delayed the time to achieve a critical leaf the USA are confronted with significant yield losses because of crop damage from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Our objecarea index (LAI) of 3.5, li...

Winter moth, Operophtera brumata L. (Lepidoptera: Geometridae), has been defoliating hardwood trees in eastern Massachusetts since the 1990s. Native to Europe, winter moth has also been detected in Rhode Island, Connecticut, eastern Long Island (NY), New Hampshire, and Maine. Individual tree impacts of winter moth defoliation in New England are currently unknown. Using dendroecological techniqu...

The consistency of visual assessment of tree defoliation, which represents the most widely used indicator for tree condition, has frequently been in the focus of scientific criticism. Thus, the objective of the present study was to examine the consistency of the defoliation data from the annual national training courses for the forest condition survey in Germany from 1992 to 2012. Defoliation a...

Despite the predominant role of bud banks in the regeneration of clonal macrophyte populations, few studies have examined the way in which clonal macrophytes adjust the demographic features of bud banks to regulate population dynamics in response to defoliation in wetlands. We investigated the density and composition of bud banks under repeated defoliation in the wetland sedge Carex brevicuspis...

The results of the four trials to determine the effects of different defoliation treatments on garlic yield, carried out in the Central Ebro Valley (Spain), are presented. Four defoliation levels of 0 (control), 33, 66 and 100% were applied at seven different developmental stages. The results demonstrate a close relationship between yield reduction and the defoliation treatment in ̄icted. The hi...

In agricultural grassland, high herbage utilisation efficiency (HEFF), which is the proportion of gross live-green production that utilised before entering senescence, ensured by frequent defoliation. The decision upon defoliation frequency to apply depends on farming intensity. Assuming a reduced total accumulation near trees in silvopastoral systems, defoliations with HEFF become less worthwh...