Special Issue "Advances in Wood-Boring Insects Control and Management"
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 April 2024 | Viewed by 533
Special Issue Editors
Prof. Dr. Shixiang Zong
Interests: monitoring and early warning and ecological control technology of forest boring pests
Interests: nematode taxonomy; nematode genomics; molecular mechanism of plant-nematode interaction
Interests: multi-species interaction of insects and fungi; invasive biology
Interests: forest entomology; chemical ecology; host microbial interactions; wood borer and its symbiosis
Interests: forest pests; biological control; population dynamics of pests; integrated pest management; phoretic mites; arboriculture
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Interests: forest entomology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Wood-boring insects are regarded as the most important forest pests, whose larvae and/or adults feed on the phloem and xylem of xylophyta, leading to physical and physiological damage to trees, causing a great loss for the wood industry. Wood borers are diversified and represented by many species of beetles, moths and wasps, including Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, Curculionidae, Scolytidae, Cossidae and Siricidae. However, wood borers are very difficult to control because of their concealed life history inside the wood, and it is difficult for trees to recover from the fatal boring damage. As a result, studies of wood borers aimed at revealing the mechanism of occurrence, establishing the efficient identification system for field work, developing accurate and real-time identification methods at the early stage of damage and investigating biohazard control approaches based on molecular, population, biocenosis, and landscape ecology are becoming the hotspots for forest pest control and prevention research.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Outbreaks and diffusion mechanisms of wood-boring insects;
- Accurate and efficient identification methods of wood-boring insects;
- Application of warning and monitoring technologies of wood-boring insects;
- Ecological regulation and control approaches of wood-boring insects;
- Green prevention and control technologies of all the life stages of wood-boring insects.
Prof. Dr. Shixiang Zong
Prof. Dr. Feng Wang
Dr. Fanghua Liu
Dr. Lili Ren
Dr. Milan Pernek
Dr. Marta Kovač
Dr. Jing Tao
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- outbreak mechanism
- detection technologies
- monitoring technologies
- ecological regulation
- sustainable control
