Elodie Le Souchu- PostDoc
- PostDoc Position at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Elodie Le Souchu
- PostDoc
- PostDoc Position at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Conservation value of skeleton forests: the role of the Spruce bark beetle as an ecosystem engineer
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I am a forest entomologist working on insect communities and their responses to environmental disturbances and forest characteristics. My aim is to improve knowledge about the biodiversity in forests for conservation and management purposes, as well as helping forest managers to prevent pest outbreaks or invasions.
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Several Agrilinae species (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) are secondary pests of broadleaf forests, and some of them are also major invasive pests. These thermophilous borers are expected to be favoured by climate change and the global deterioration of forest health, and ultimately expand their range and damage. Flight behaviour and performance of these...
Forest health is being challenged worldwide due to changing disturbance regimes. These changes could promote the abundance and diversity of secondary forest pests, like the Agrilinae (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) borers, which are frequently involved in oak decline in Europe. We assessed the contribution of environmental factors to local abundance and...
Forest decline and dieback are growing phenomena worldwide, resulting in severe, large‐scale degradation of the canopy. This can profoundly alter the provision of trophic resources and microhabitats for canopy‐dwelling arthropods.
In 2019, we assessed the effect of oak decline on the community of canopy‐dwelling Hymenoptera. We selected 21 oak stan...
1. Forest decline and dieback are growing phenomena worldwide, resulting in severe, large-scale degradation of the canopy. This can profoundly alter the provision of trophic resources and microhabitats for canopy-dwelling arthropods.
2. In 2019, we assessed the effect of oak decline on the community of canopy-dwelling Hymenoptera. We selected 21 o...
Purpose of Review
The increasing impact of droughts, wildfires and windstorms in temperate areas poses a significant challenge to the adaptation capacity of forests and their associated arthropod communities. Organisms, organic material, and environmental conditions occurring after disturbances, i.e. the disturbance legacies, shape arthropod commu...
Global change challenges the adaptive potential of forests. Large-scale alterations of forest canopies have been reported across Europe, and further modifications are expected in response to the predicted changes in drought and windstorm regimes. Since forest canopies are dynamic interfaces between atmosphere and land surface, communities of canopy...
