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ArticleEcology2026

Insect defoliators trading spaces in a hemiboreal forest: Implications for diversity-stability and ecosystem resilience.

Brian R Sturtevant, Barry J Cooke, Daniel Kneeshaw, Louis-Etienne Robert, Patrick M A James, Marie-Josée Fortin, Peter T Wolter, Philip A Townsend

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Article in Ecology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Brian R SturtevantUSDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0965-6260
Barry J CookeCanadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8347-9832
Daniel KneeshawCentre d'étude de la forêt (CEF), Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Louis-Etienne RobertCanadian Forest Service, Great Lakes Forestry Centre, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4406-4079
Patrick M A JamesGraduate Department of Forestry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Marie-Josée FortinDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Peter T WolterDepartment of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA.
Philip A TownsendDepartment of Forest and Wildlife Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7003-8774

Funding

Sustainable Forest Management Network of CanadaUSDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service (CSREES) 2005-35101-16342US Endowment for Forest and Communities E2014-0260
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Periodic outbreaks of forest insect pests shape northern forest dynamics, yet interactions between multiple insect-host systems-and their role in ecosystem metastability and resilience-remain poorly understood. To elucidate these spatiotemporal interactions, we investigated the coupled dynamics of two dominant insect-host systems-spruce budworm (SBW) associated with late-successional fir and spruce, and forest tent caterpillar (FTC) associated with early-successional aspen. We assess whether asynchronous outbreak patterns shift over time and whether those shifts are consistent with forest compositional change. Using tree-ring data from mixedwood sites across a 20,000-km

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BiodiversityForestsMothsAnimalsPiceaTime FactorsTreescross‐scale dynamicsdisturbance regimediversity–stabilityecological memoryforest tent caterpillarmetastabilityresilience theoryspatiotemporal analysisspruce budwormtime series data

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PMID42706670
PMCPMC13550712

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