Cost of potential emerald ash borer damage in U.S. communities, 2009–2019

Kovacs, Kent; Haight, Robert G.; McCullough, Deborah G.; Mercader, Rodrigo J.; Siegert, Nathan W.; Liebhold, Andrew M.

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.09.004

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“…Moreover, natural or disturbance-related mortality and the presence of standing deadwood both present a similar hazard or significant costs for removal, as is the case currently with widespread ash (Fraxinus spp.) mortality caused by the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) [93]. Similarly, trees can create unwanted debris, such as sap and leaves [93].…”

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Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

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Abstract:We argue that a healthy urban forest contributes immensely to the sustainability of cities. The argument is based on a comprehensive array of values elicited from Canadians in several cities. To begin, we define the urban forest as inclusive of all the trees in the city and thus representing the predominant contributor to a city's green infrastructure. Then we enumerate and explain the broad diversity of ways in which urban people value trees in the city. We, thus, show the myriad pathways by which trees contribute positively to any city's social, economic, and ecological sustainability. Following a short summary of the ways in which trees may detract from people's quality of life, we present promising management directions for urban-forest improvement, as we understand the situation in Canada. We conclude that all cities can enhance their sustainability by improving the urban forest.

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“…mortality caused by the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) [93]. Similarly, trees can create unwanted debris, such as sap and leaves [93]. Lastly, infrastructure and people may be put at risk by the increase in wildfire potential that comes with an increase in urban trees [29].…”

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Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

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“…For example, movement of firewood by campers has been deemed one of the major causes of the rapid expansion of populations of the emerald ash borer, an invasive pest of ash trees (Fraxinus spp. ), throughout eastern Canada and the U.S. Midwest (Haack et al 2002, 2010, Kovacs et al 2010. Overall, recreational travel is considered a significant vector of firewood movement: campground surveys in various parts of the U.S. indicate that 8-57% of campers bring their own firewood from home, frequently travelling distances exceeding 160-320 km and crossing state and U.S.-Canada border lines (APHIS 2011).…”

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Quantifying uncertainty in pest risk maps and assessments: adopting a risk-averse decision maker’s perspective

Yemshanov¹,

Koch²,

Ducey³

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Pest risk maps are important decision support tools when devising strategies to minimize introductions of invasive organisms and mitigate their impacts. When possible management responses to an invader include costly or socially sensitive activities, decision-makers tend to follow a more certain (i.e., risk-averse) course of action. We presented a new mapping technique that assesses pest invasion risk from the perspective of a risk-averse decision maker.We demonstrated the method by evaluating the likelihood that an invasive forest pest will be transported to one of the U.S. states or Canadian provinces in infested firewood by visitors to U.S. federal campgrounds. We tested the impact of the risk aversion assumption using distributions of plausible pest arrival scenarios generated with a geographically explicit model developed from data documenting camper travel across the study area. Next, we prioritized regions of high and low pest arrival risk via application of two stochastic ordering techniques that employed, respectively, first-and second-degree stochastic dominance rules, the latter of which incorporated the notion of risk aversion. We then identified regions in the study area where the pest risk value changed considerably after incorporating risk aversion. NeoBiotaDenys Yemshanov et al. / NeoBiota 18: 193-218 (2013) 194While both methods identified similar areas of highest and lowest risk, they differed in how they demarcated moderate-risk areas. In general, the second-order stochastic dominance method assigned lower risk rankings to moderate-risk areas. Overall, this new method offers a better strategy to deal with the uncertainty typically associated with risk assessments and provides a tractable way to incorporate decisionmaking preferences into final risk estimates, and thus helps to better align these estimates with particular decision-making scenarios about a pest organism of concern. Incorporation of risk aversion also helps prioritize the set of locations to target for inspections and outreach activities, which can be costly. Our results are especially important and useful given the huge number of camping trips that occur each year in the United States and Canada.

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“…EAB was accidentally introduced to Michigan in late 1990s from its native range (northeast Asia, in parts of China, Russia, and Korea) possibly via wooden crates or pallets for cargo shipment [3]; it has since spread to 14 additional US states and two Canadian provinces and killed millions of North American ash (Fraxinus spp.) since its detection in 2002 [4,5]. By contrast, GSOB is native to the oak forests of southwestern Arizona, and while its damage to oak trees in its invaded range has been on a smaller scale, it has killed more than 25,000 oaks in the oak savannahs of California since first discovered there in 2002 [6][7][8].…”

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Parasitoid Guilds ofAgrilusWoodborers (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): Their Diversity and Potential for Use in Biological Control

Taylor

Duan

Fuester

et al. 2012

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology

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and the Korean peninsula) were reviewed to identify parasitoid guilds associated with Agrilus woodborers. There are at least 12 species of hymenopteran parasitoids attacking eggs of Agrilus beetles and 56 species (36 genera), attacking Agrilus larvae infesting various host plants in North America, Asia, and Europe. While most of the egg parasitoids (9 species) belong to the family Encyrtidae, a majority of the larval parasitoids are members of five families: Braconidae (24 species/11 genera), Eulophidae (8 species/4 genera), Ichneumonidae (10 species/9 genera), and Eupelmidae (6 species/5 genera). The highest rate of Agrilus egg parasitism (>50%) was exerted by encyrtid wasps (4 species) in North America, Asia, and Europe. In contrast, the highest rate of Agrilus larval parasitism (>50%) was caused by species in two genera of braconids: Atanycolus (North America) and Spathius (Asia), and one eulophid genus, Tetrastichus (Asia and Europe). Reported rate of Agrilus larval parasitism ichneumonids was frequent in North America, but generally low (<1%). Potential for success in biological control of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) in the USA with North American native parasitoids and old-association Asian parasitoids is discussed.

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Cost of potential emerald ash borer damage in U.S. communities, 2009–2019

Cited by 403 publications

References 12 publications

Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

Trees in Canadian Cities: Indispensable Life Form for Urban Sustainability

Quantifying uncertainty in pest risk maps and assessments: adopting a risk-averse decision maker’s perspective

Parasitoid Guilds ofAgrilusWoodborers (Coleoptera: Buprestidae): Their Diversity and Potential for Use in Biological Control

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