Skip to Main Content
U.S. Forest Service
Caring for the land and serving people

United States Department of Agriculture

Home > Search > Publication Information

  1. Stand, landscape, and ecosystem analyses of hemlock woolly adelgid outbreaks in southern New England: an overview

    Share via EmailShare on FacebookShare on LinkedInShare on Twitter
    Dislike this pubLike this pub
    Author(s): David A. Orwig; David R. Foster
    Date: 2000
    Source: In: McManus, Katherine A.; Shields, Kathleen S.; Souto, Dennis R., eds. Proceedings: Symposium on sustainable management of hemlock ecosystems in eastern North America. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-267. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 123-125.
    Publication Series: General Technical Report (GTR)
    Station: Northeastern Research Station
    PDF: Download Publication  (255.12 KB)
    Note: This article is part of a larger document. View the larger document

    Description

    Hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA) (Adelges tsugae), an introduced aphid-like insect from Asia, is expanding across the northeastern United States through the range of eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.) and has the potential to severely reduce or eliminate this important late-successional species. While infestation and unimpeded migration of HWA presents a tremendous management problem, it also has provided an unusual opportunity to examine the impacts of an introduced pest as it spreads. In order to develop insights into these management issues, we have developed a multi-faceted research effort that examines various forest responses to HWA outbreaks in Connecticut including stand and community reorganization dynamics, landscape patterns of HWA infestation, damage, and hemlock mortality, microenvironmental changes and their impact on ecosystem processes, and the effect of cutting infested forests on successional and ecosystem dynamics. This paper presents an overview of this research, conducted by Harvard Forest scientists.

    Publication Notes

    • Check the Northern Research Station web site to request a printed copy of this publication.
    • Our on-line publications are scanned and captured using Adobe Acrobat.
    • During the capture process some typographical errors may occur.
    • Please contact Sharon Hobrla, shobrla@fs.fed.us if you notice any errors which make this publication unusable.
    • We recommend that you also print this page and attach it to the printout of the article, to retain the full citation information.
    • This article was written and prepared by U.S. Government employees on official time, and is therefore in the public domain.

    Citation

    Orwig, David A.; Foster, David R. 2000. Stand, landscape, and ecosystem analyses of hemlock woolly adelgid outbreaks in southern New England: an overview. In: McManus, Katherine A.; Shields, Kathleen S.; Souto, Dennis R., eds. Proceedings: Symposium on sustainable management of hemlock ecosystems in eastern North America. Gen. Tech. Rep. NE-267. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Forest Experiment Station. 123-125.

    Related Search

    XML: View XML
Show More
Show Fewer
Jump to Top of Page
https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/14688