Michael Howe

Utah State University — United States

Environmental Science · Physical Sciences

13h-index410citations49works1.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Forest Insect Ecology and Management(13), Insect and Pesticide Research(7), Fire effects on ecosystems(5), Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies(4), Insect-Plant Interactions and Control(3)

Publications49 total

Tree measurements from old-growth and second-growth forest stands in southeast Alaska
Forest Service Research Data Archive·2025· 1 cited
Bias and discrimination perceived by antimicrobial stewards: a mixed-methods study
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology·2025Open Access
Thinning restores ungulate foraging habitat in historically logged forests
Ecological Applications·2025· 2 cited
A shrinking envelope? Climate warming across the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest and its projected impact on a native defoliator
Climatic Change·2025
Budworms, beetles and wildfire: Disturbance interactions influence the likelihood of insect‐caused disturbances at a subcontinental scale
Journal of Ecology·2024· 11 cited
Author response for "Budworms, beetles and wildfire: Disturbance interactions influence the likelihood of insect‐caused disturbances at a subcontinental scale"
2024
Defoliator outbreaks track with warming across the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest of North America
Ecography·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Author response for "Defoliator outbreaks track with warming across the Pacific coastal temperate rainforest of North America"
2024
Author response for "Budworms, beetles and wildfire: Disturbance interactions influence the likelihood of insect‐caused disturbances at a subcontinental scale"
2024
Author response for "Budworms, beetles and wildfire: Disturbance interactions influence the likelihood of insect‐caused disturbances at a subcontinental scale"
2024
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
Numbers matter: how irruptive bark beetles initiate transition to self-sustaining behavior during landscape-altering outbreaks
Oecologia·2022· 20 cited
Landscape predictions of western balsam bark beetle activity implicate warm temperatures, a longer growing season, and drought in widespread irruptions across British Columbia
Forest Ecology and Management·2022· 20 cited
Shifting Roles of Predisposing Agents, Spatial Contagion, And Accessible Host Quality Drive Phase Transitions of An Irruptive Herbivore
2021Open Access
Climate‐induced outbreaks in high‐elevation pines are driven primarily by immigration of bark beetles from historical hosts
Global Change Biology·2021· 24 cited
Growth, Chemistry, and Genetic Profiles of Whitebark Pine Forests Affected by Climate-Driven Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change·2021· 13 citedOpen Access
137. Evaluating a Novel Antibiogram Format for use in Wisconsin Nursing Homes
Open Forum Infectious Diseases·2020Open Access
Feasibility of Developing Traditional Facility-Specific Nursing Home Antibiograms
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology·2020· 1 citedOpen Access
Relationships between conifer constitutive and inducible defenses against bark beetles change across levels of biological and ecological scale
Oikos·2020· 15 cited
Pine Engravers Carry Bacterial Communities Whose Members Reduce Concentrations of Host Monoterpenes With Variable Degrees of Redundancy, Specificity, and Capability
Environmental Entomology·2018· 25 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Kenneth F. Raffa(5), Amy M. Trowbridge(5), Kellen N. Nelson(5), Allan L. Carroll(4), Claudio Gratton(4), Sarah J. Hart(4), Elizabeth E. Graham(3), Lindsay Taylor(3), M. J. Lehane(2), Ken Keefover‐Ring(2), Brian H. Aukema(2), Kimberly F. Wallin(2), Alvin D. Yanchuk(2), Pamela M. Kittelson(2), Stuart Wagenius(2), Reina Nielsen(2), Sanjive Qazi(2), Gretel Kiefer(2), Ruth G. Shaw(2), D. Hinde(2)