Heat as a phytosanitary treatment for the brown spruce longhorn beetle

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 224-228

  Mushrow, Lisa ^a,b   Morrison, Andrew ^a,b   Sweeney, Jon ^c   Quiring, Dan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b Fac of Forest and Environ Mgmt   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brown spruce longhorn beetle; Heat treatment; Hygrothermal stress; Tetropium fuscum; Wood borers

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INSPECTION; LUMBER; MOISTURE;

PHYTOSANITARY TREATMENT;

HEAT TREATMENT;

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; HIGH TEMPERATURE; PEST CONTROL; PEST SPECIES;

CANADA; HALIFAX; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

CERAMBYCIDAE; COLEOPTERA; PICEA;

EID: 3042605050     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc80224-2     Document Type: Article

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