Brian Aukema

About

Professor Brian Aukema is a Professor of Forest Entomology who moved his lab to the University of Minnesota in 2010 after working as a research scientist with the Canadian Forest Service at the University of Northern British Columbia. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in forest entomology (MS, PhD) and biometry (environmental statistics, MS). In recognition of his work, he was awarded a University McKnight Land-Grant Professorship in 2011. His research and academic career are rooted in forest entomology, with a strong foundation in environmental statistics. As a transplanted Canadian, he humorously notes that his favorite type of stick is a hockey stick.

Research topics

• Biology
• Ecology
• Demography
• Engineering
• Zoology
• Computer Science
• Programming language
• Aerospace engineering
• Environmental resource management
• Horticulture

Selected publications

• Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

  Science · 2020 · 1266 citations

  Forest dynamics arise from the interplay of environmental drivers and disturbances with the demographic processes of recruitment, growth, and mortality, subsequently driving biomass and species composition. However, forest disturbances and subsequent recovery are shifting with global changes in climate and land use, altering these dynamics. Changes in environmental drivers, land use, and disturbance regimes are forcing forests toward younger, shorter stands. Rising carbon dioxide, acclimation, a…

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• Warming increased bark beetle‐induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California

  Global Change Biology · 2021 · 77 citations

  if the effects of compromised tree defenses (15%-20%) and increased western pine beetle populations (20%) are additive. Due to the warming ability to considerably increase mortality through the mechanism of bark beetle populations, models need to consider climate's influence on both host tree stress and the bark beetle population dynamics when determining future levels of tree mortality.

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• A Guide and Toolbox to Replicability and Open Science in Entomology

  Journal of Insect Science · 2020 · 27 citations

  Senior authorCorresponding

  The ability to replicate scientific experiments is a cornerstone of the scientific method. Sharing ideas, workflows, data, and protocols facilitates testing the generalizability of results, increases the speed that science progresses, and enhances quality control of published work. Fields of science such as medicine, the social sciences, and the physical sciences have embraced practices designed to increase replicability. Granting agencies, for example, may require data management plans and jour…

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• Comparing <i>Drosophila suzukii</i> flight behavior using free‐flight and tethered flight assays

  Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata · 2022 · 9 citations

  Abstract Tethered flight mills and free‐flight studies are two common approaches for examining insect flight behavior in the laboratory. Flight behavior studies are significant because they provide information with understanding dispersal and range expansion. Each approach has advantages and drawbacks and can influence the flight behavior of the study organism. However, tethered and untethered flight studies are rarely performed simultaneously to determine whether one technique is better suited…

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• Hosts and impacts of elongate hemlock scale (Hemiptera: Diaspididae): A critical review

  Frontiers in Insect Science · 2024-02-12 · 8 citations

  reviewOpen access

  Fiorinia externa Ferris, elongate hemlock scale, was inadvertently introduced to North America from Japan. This insect is particularly problematic on hemlock, Tsuga spp., though it has been reported in association with several other conifers. The evidence that other conifers might be hosts, capable of supporting growing populations of the insect, has not been previously reviewed. Our review confirms that F. externa is an oligophagous pest of members of Pinaceae. Although species of Cupressaceae…

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Frequent coauthors

• Kenneth F. Raffa

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  83 shared

• Jun Zhu

  University of Wisconsin–Madison

  36 shared

• Jesper Møller

  32 shared

• Jakob Gulddahl Rasmussen

  Aalborg University

  32 shared

• Allan L. Carroll

  University of British Columbia

  23 shared

• Robert C. Venette

  Northern Research Station

  22 shared

• Fraser R. McKee

  Alberta Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry

  17 shared

• B. Staffan Lindgren

  17 shared

Labs

• The Aukema LabPI

Education

• PhD in Forest Entomology

  University of Wisconsin

  2003

• MS in Biometry (Environmental Statistics)

  University of Wisconsin

  2003

• MS in Forest Entomology

  University of Wisconsin

  1999

Similar researchers at University of Minnesota

• Elizabeth Borerh-65
• George Heimpelh-63
• Declan Schroederh-49