Barbara J. Bentz Research Entomologist USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station Adjunct Faculty, Department of Wildland Resources, Utah State University Logan, Utah [email protected] Google Scholar Education B.S. Forestry and Biology Stephen F. Austin State University 1981 M.S. Forest Resources University of Idaho 1984 Ph.D. Entomology Virginia Tech 1991 Professional Experience 1991 – present Research Entomologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS), Logan, UT 1999 – 2005 Project Leader, USDA Forest Service, RMRS, Logan, UT Publications (* Graduate/undergraduate student) Bentz BJ, EM Hansen, JC Vandygriff, SS Stephens and D Soderberg*. 2020. Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (Pinus aristata) is a confirmed host to mountain pine beetle. North American Naturalist. In Press. Soderberg D*, K Mock, R Hofstetter and B Bentz. 2020. Translocation experiment reveals capacity for mountain pine beetle persistence under climate warming. Ecological Monographs. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecm.1437. Keen RM*, SL Voelker, BJ Bentz, SY Wang and R Ferrell. 2020. Stronger influence of growth rate than severity of drought stress on mortality of large ponderosa pines during the 2012-2015 California drought. Oecologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-020-04771-0. Kyre BR*, Bentz BJ and LK Riskey. 2020. Susceptibility of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) to gene silencing through RNAi provides potential as a novel management tool. Forest Ecology and Management 473. Bentz BJ. 2019. Mountain pine beetle and Great Basin bristlecone pine: a complicated story. Mountain Views 13(2): 28-32. https://www.fs.fed.us/psw/cirmount/publications/pdf/Mtn_Views_dec_19.pdf Cansler, C.A., S.M. Hood, J.M. Varner, P.J. van Mantgem, M.C. Agne, R.A. Andrus, M.P. Ayres, B.D. Ayres, J.D. Bakker, M.A. Battaglia, B.J. Bentz, C.R. Breece, J.K. Brown, D.R. Cluck, T.W. Coleman, R.G. Corace, W.W. Covington, D.S. Cram, J.B. Cronan, J.E. Crouse, A.J. Das, R.S. Davis, D.M. Dickinson, S.A. Fitzgerald, P.Z. Fulé, L.M. Ganio, L.M. Grayson, C.B. Halpern, J.L. Hanula, B.J. Harvey, J.K. Hiers, D.W. Huffman, M. Keifer, T.L. Keyser, L.N., Kobziar, T.E. Kolb, C.A. Kolden, K.E. Kopper, J.R. Kreitler, J.K. Kreye, A.M. Latimer, AP. Lerch, M.J. Lombardero, V.L. McDaniel, C.W. McHugh, J.D. McMillin, J.J. Moghaddas, J.J. O’Brien, D.D.B. Perrakis, D.W. Peterson, S.J. Prichard, R.A. Progar, K.F. Raffa, E.D, Reinhardt, J.C., Restaino, J.P. Roccaforte, BM. Rogers, K.C. Ryan, HD. Safford, A.E. Santoro, T.M. Shearman, A.M. Shumate, C.H., Sieg, S.L. Smith, R.J. Smith, N.L. Stephenson, M. Steuver, J.T. Stevens, M.T. Stoddard, W.G. Thies, N.M. Vaillant, S.A. Weiss, D.J., Westlind, T.J. Woolley, M. Wright. 2019. The Fire and Tree Mortality Database (FTM): a database for empirical modeling of tree mortality after fire. Scientific Data. 7, 194. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-0522-7. Bentz BJ, Bonello P, Delb H, Fettig C, Poland T, Pureswaran D, Seybold S. 2019. Advances in understanding and managing insect pests of forest trees. Chapter 19 IN Achieving sustainable management of boreal and temperate forests (ed. J. Stanturf), Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. Bentz BJ, Jönsson AM, Schroeder M, Weed A, Wilcke RAI, Larsson, K. 2019. Ips typographus and Dendroctonus ponderosae models project thermal suitability for intra- and inter-continental establishment in a changing climate. Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2019.00001. McManis AE*, Powell JA, Bentz BJ. 2019. Modeling mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) oviposition. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata. https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12783. McManis AE*, Powell JA, Bentz BJ. 2018. Developmental parameters of a southern mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) population reveal potential source of latitudinal differences in generation time. The Canadian Entomologist, 151:1-15. Boone CK, Sweeney J, Silk P, Huges C, Webster RP, Stephen F, Maclauchlan L, Bentz BJ, Drumont A., Zhao B, Berkvens N, Casteels H and Gregoire JC. 2019. Monochamus species from different continents can be effectively detected with the same trapping protocol. Journal of Pest Science, 92: 3-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10340-018-0954-4. Eidson EL*, Mock KE, Bentz BJ. 2018. Low offspring survival in mountain pine beetle infesting the resistant Great Basin bristlecone pine supports the preference-performance hypothesis. PLoS ONE. 13(5):e0196732, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0196732. Bentz BJ, Hansen EM. 2017. Evidence for a prepupal diapause in the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae, Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae). Environmental Entomology. doi: 10.1093/ee/nvx192. Seybold SJ, Bentz BJ, Fettig CJ, Lundquist JE, Progar RA, Gillette NE. 2018. Management of western North American bark beetles with semiochemicals. Annual Review of Entomology. 63:407-32. Eidson EL*, Mock KE, Bentz BJ. 2017. Mountain pine beetle host selection behavior confirms high resistance in Great Basin bristlecone pine. Forest Ecology and Management 402:12-20. Schebeck M, Hansen EM, Schopf A, Ragland GJ, Stauffer C, Bentz BJ. 2017. Overwintering and diapause of two spruce bark beetle species. Journal of Insect Physiology 42:200-210. Powell J, Garlick M, Bentz B, Friedenberg, N. 2017. Differential dispersal and the Allee effect create power-law behavior: Distribution of spot infestations during mountain pine beetle outbreaks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87:73-86. Bracewell RR, Bentz BJ, Sullivan BT and Good JM. 2017. Neo-sex chromosome evolution drives incipient speciation in a major forest pest. Nature Communications 8(1), 10.1038/s41467-017-01761-4. Dowle E, Bracewell R, Pfrender M, Bentz B, Mock K, Ragland G. 2017. Reproductive isolation and environmental adaptation shape the phylogeography of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Molecular Ecology 26(21):6071-6084. Bentz BJ, Eidson EL*. 2016. Are high elevation pines equally susceptible to climate changed-induced mountain pine beetle attack? Nutcracker Notes, Journal of the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation 31:20-23. Lerch AP*, Pfammatter JA, Bentz BJ, Raffa KF. 2016. Mountain pine beetle dynamics and reproductive success in post-fire lodgepole and ponderosa pine forests in northeastern Utah. PLosOne 11(10) e0164738. Marini L, Økland B, Jönsson AM, Bentz BJ, Carroll AL, Forster B, Grégoire JC, Hurling R, Nageleisen LM, Netherer S, Ravn HP, Weed A, Schroeder M. 2016. Climate drivers of bark beetle outbreak dynamics in Norway spruce forests. Ecography doi:10.1111/ecog.02769. Loehman RA, Bentz BJ, DeNitto GA, Keane RE, Manning ME, Duncan JP, Egan JM, Jackson MB, Kegley S, Lockman IB, Pearson DE, Powell JA, Shelly S, Steed BE, Zambino PJ. 2017. Chapter 8: Effects of climate change on ecological disturbances, IN. Halofsky, J. E., Peterson, D. L. (eds), Climate Change and Rocky Mountain Ecosystems, Advances in Global Change Research 63, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56928-4_7. Bentz BJ, Hood SA, Hansen EM, Vandygriff JC, Mock KE. 2017. Defense traits in the long-lived Great Basin bristlecone pine and resistance to the native herbivore mountain pine beetle. New Phytologist 213(2): 611-624. Ramsfield TD, Bentz BJ, Faccoli M, Jactel H, and Brockerhoff EG. 2016. Forest health in a changing world: Effects of globalization and climate change on forest insect and pathogen impacts. Forestry, 89:245- 252. Bentz BJ, Duncan JP*, Powell JA. 2016. Elevational shifts in thermal suitability for mountain pine beetle population growth in a changing climate. Forestry 89(3):271-283, doi:10.1093/forestry/cpv054. Kolb TE, Fettig CJ, Bentz BJ, Stewart JE, Weed AS, Hicke JA and Ayres MP. 2016. Forest insect and fungal pathogen responses to drought. Pp. 113-128 ,IN J.M Vose, J.S. Clark, C.H. Luce, and T. Patel-Weynand (eds), Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States: A Comprehensive Science Synthesis, USDA Forest Service, Gen. Tech. Report WO-93b. Kolb TE, Fettig CJ, Bentz BJ, Stewart JE, Weed AS, Hicke JA, Ayres MP, and Mathiasen R. 2016. Observed and anticipated impacts of drought on forest insects and diseases in the United States. Forest Ecology and Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2016.04.051. Krivan V, Lewis M, Bentz BJ, Bewick S, Lenhart SM, and Liebhold A. 2016. A dynamical model for bark beetle outbreaks. Journal of Theoretical Biology 407:25-37. Bentz BJ, Vandygriff J, Jensen C, Coleman T, Maloney P, Smith S, Grady A, Schen-Langenheim G. 2015. Monitoring mountain pine beetle life cycle timing and phloem temperatures at multiple elevations and latitudes in California. In Potter, K.M., and B.L. Conkling, eds. Forest Health Monitoring: National Status, Trends, and Analysis, 2015. Forest Health Monitoring National Technical Report, Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station, p. 167–177. Bentz BJ and Jӧnsson AM. 2015. Modeling bark beetle responses to climate change. Chapter 13, In Vega, F. and R. Hofstetter eds., Bark Beetles: Biology and Ecology of Native and Invasive Species, pp. 533- 549. Elsevier. Weed AS, Ayres MP, and Bentz BJ. 2015. Population dynamics of bark beetles, Chapter 4, In Vega, F. and R. Hofstetter eds., Bark Beetles: Biology and Ecology of Native and Invasive Species, pp. 157-176. Elsevier. Hansen EM, Johnson MC, Bentz BJ, Vandygriff JC and Munson AS. 2015. Fuel loads and simulated fire behavior in ‘old-stage’ beetle-infested ponderosa pine of the Colorado Plateau. Forest Science 61:644. Weed AS, Bentz BJ, Ayres MP and Holmes TP. 2015. Geographically variable response of Dendroctonus ponderosae to winter warming in the western United States. Landscape Ecology 30(6):1075-1093. Addison A*, Powell JA, Bentz BJ, and Six DL.