Our mission: To provide the basic biological and ecological knowledge and innovative management strategies required for management and control of native and non-native insect pests, disease pathogens and invasive plants in changing forest ecosystems.
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Prescribed fire history affects pollinator diversity in southern forests
Landscapes with diverse fire histories – or pyrodiverse landscapes – have higher diversity of pollinators, as a recent study by USDA Forest Service scientist Michael Ulyshen shows. The study was published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Latest Publications
- Investigating the extent, severity, and causes of sugarberry mortality in the Southeastern United States
Ulyshen, Michael; Poole, Emilee. - Diversity and seasonal occurrence of native and nonnative ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in long-term experimental Chinese Privet (Lamiales: Oleaceae) plots in Georgia, USA
Vogt, James T.; MacGown, Joe A.; Lewis, James; Horn, Scott; Ulyshen, Michael D. - Pine savanna restoration on agricultural landscapes: The path back to native savanna ecosystem services.
Dixon, Cinnamon M.; Robertson, Kevin M.; Ulyshen, Michael D.; Sikes, Benjamin A. - Worldwide diversity of endophytic fungi and insects associated with dormant tree twigs.
Franić, Iva; Prospero, Simone; Adamson, Kalev; Allan, Eric; Attorre, Fabio; Auger-Rozenberg, Marie Anne; Augustin, Sylvie; Avtzis, Dimitrios; Baert, Wim; Barta, Marek; Bauters, Kenneth; Bellahirech, Amani; Boroń, Piotr; Bragança, Helena; Brestovanská, Tereza; Brurberg, May Bente; Burgess, Treena; Burokienė, Daiva; Cleary, Michelle; Corley, Juan; Coyle, David R.; Csóka, György; Černý, Karel; Davydenko, Kateryna; de Groot, Maarten; Diez, Julio Javier; Doğmuş Lehtijärvi, H. Tuğba; Drenkhan, Rein; Edwards, Jacqueline; Elsafy, Mohammed; Eötvös, Csaba Béla; Falko, Roman; Fan, Jianting; Feddern, Nina; Fürjes-Mikó, Ágnes; Gossner, Martin M.; Grad, Bartłomiej; Hartmann, Martin; Havrdova, Ludmila; Horáková, Miriam Kádasi; Hrabětová, Markéta; Justesen, Mathias Just; Kacprzyk, Magdalena; Kenis, Marc; Kirichenko, Natalia; Kovač, Marta; Kramarets, Volodymyr; Lacković, Nikola; Lantschner, Maria Victoria; Lazarević, Jelena; Leskiv, Marianna; Li, Hongmei; Madsen, Corrie Lynne; Malumphy, Chris; Matošević, Dinka; Matsiakh, Iryna; May, Tom W.; Meffert, Johan; Migliorini, Duccio; Nikolov, Christo; O’Hanlon, Richard; Oskay, Funda; Paap, Trudy; Parpan, Taras; Piškur, Barbara; Ravn, Hans Peter; Richard, John; Ronse, Anne; Roques, Alain; Ruffner, Beat; Sivickis, Karolis; Soliani, Carolina; Talgø, Venche; Tomoshevich, Maria; Uimari, Anne; Ulyshen, Michael; Vettraino, Anna Maria; Villari, Caterina; Wang, Yongjun; Witzell, Johanna; Zlatković, Milica; Eschen, René. - Decadal patterns of forest and pollinator recovery following the eradication of an invasive shrub.
Ulyshen, Michael D.; Horn, Scott; Hanula, James L.