Kenneth F. Raffa

University of Wisconsin–Madison — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

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Research Topics

Forest Insect Ecology and Management(279), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(121), Insect and Pesticide Research(114), Plant and animal studies(62), Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies(58)

Publications436 total

Population phase-dependent niche requirements may limit outbreaks of the range-expanding mountain pine beetle in the western boreal forest
Forest Ecology and Management·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores
Ecology Letters·2025· 2 cited
Population Phase-Dependent Niche Requirements May Limit Outbreaks of the Invasive Mountain Pine Beetle in the Western Boreal Forest
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Population Phase-Dependent Niche Requirements May Limit Outbreaks of the Invasive Mountain Pine Beetle in the Western Boreal Forest
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Author response for "What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores"
2024
Author response for "What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores"
2024
Author response for "What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores"
2024
Author response for "What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores"
2024
Oviposition behavior of the quasi-gregarious parasitoid, <i>Ooencyrtus kuvanae</i> (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae)
Journal of Insect Science·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Quantification of heritable variation in multiple lodgepole pine chemical and physical traits that contribute to defense against mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae)
Forest Ecology and Management·2023· 5 cited
The Global Forest Health Crisis: A Public-Good Social Dilemma in Need of International Collective Action
Annual Review of Phytopathology·2023· 25 citedOpen Access
Approaches to Forecasting Damage by Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens: A Cross-Assessment
BioScience·2023· 28 citedOpen Access
Phylogenetic risk assessment is robust for forecasting the impact of<scp>E</scp>uropean insects on<scp>N</scp>orth<scp>A</scp>merican conifers
Ecological Applications·2022· 12 cited
Fire and tree mortality database (FTM) (2nd Edition)
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2022· 1 citedOpen Access
Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic analyses provide insights into adaptive evolution of the red turpentine beetle, Dendroctonus valens
BMC Biology·2022· 28 citedOpen Access
Spread rates do not necessarily predict outbreak dynamics in a broadly distributed invasive insect
Forest Ecology and Management·2022· 5 cited
The Global Forest Health Crisis: A Public Good Social Dilemma in Need of International Collective Action
2022· 1 cited
Numbers matter: how irruptive bark beetles initiate transition to self-sustaining behavior during landscape-altering outbreaks
Oecologia·2022· 20 cited
Additional file 1 of Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic analyses provide insights into adaptive evolution of the red turpentine beetle, Dendroctonus valens
Figshare·2022Open Access
Establishment and Spread Rates Do Not Necessarily Predict Outbreak Dynamics in a Broadly Distributed Invasive Insect
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Jo Handelsman(9), Kier D. Klepzig(7), Brian H. Aukema(6), Allan L. Carroll(4), Eugene B. Smalley(4), Aaron S. Adams(4), Cameron R. Currie(4), Alan A. Berryman(4), Jeffrey A. Hicke(3), A. A. Berryman(3), Nichole A. Broderick(3), Courtney J. Robinson(3), Garret Suen(3), Charles J. Mason(3), Nate G. McDowell(2), Rosie A. Fisher(2), Craig D. Allen(2), Amy M. Trowbridge(2), Jörg Bohlmann(2), Frank O. Aylward(2)