Mary Reid

Our work primarily focuses on the strategic interactions between bark beetles and their host trees.  Habitat selection is expected to depend on the energetic state of the searching animal and the choices it has.  The quality of trees, the habitat of most bark beetles, is expected to depend on how trees allocate to growth, defence and reproduction; such tree traits are an increasing focus in my lab.  The strategies of both bark beetles and trees are influenced by climate in ways that require further understanding.

Our field work takes place in western Canada with lab work occurring on the main campus or at the University of Calgary's Barrier Lake field station.

I am not currently seeking new graduate students, but may consider those who have or likely will have funding as well as a mutual research interest.

• Thomas, J.P., M.L. Reid, T.S. Jung, R.M.R. Barclay. 2019. Site occupancy of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in response to salvage logging in the boreal forest. Forest Ecology and Management 451: on-line. DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2019.117501
• Thomas, J.P., M.L. Reid, R.M.R. Barclay, T.S. Jung. 2019. Salvage logging after an insect outbreak reduces occupancy by snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) and their primary predators. Global Ecology and Conservation, 17:e00562. DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00562
• Reid, M.L., J.K. Sekhon, L.M. LaFramboise. 2017. Toxicity of monoterpene identity, diversity and concentration to mountain pine beetles, Dendroctonus ponderosae: beetle traits matter more. Journal of Chemical Ecology 43:351-361. DOI: 10.1007/s10886-017-0824-1
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• Strohm S., M.L. Reid and R.C.Tyson. 2016. Impacts of management on Mountain Pine Beetle spread and damage: A process-rich model. Ecological Modelling 337:241-252 http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1TR8915DJ~lvco
• Lachowsky, L.E., Lalonde, R.G. and Reid, M.L. 2015. Can Wolbachia (Rickettsiaceae) explain female-biased sex ratios in mountain pine beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)? The Canadian Entomologist 147: 732-736.
• Lachowsky, L. E. and M. L. Reid. 2014. Developmental mortality increases sex-ratio bias of a size-dimorphic bark beetle. Ecological Entomology 39: 300-308. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/een.12108/full
• Manning, C.G. and M.L. Reid. 2013. Sub-lethal effects of monoterpenes on reproduction by mountain pine beetles. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 15:262-271.
• Fettig, C.J., M.L. Reid, B.J. Bentz, S. Sevanto, D.L. Spittlehouse and T. Wang. 2013. Changing climates, changing forests: a western North American perspective. Journal of Forestry 111: 214-228.
• Young, H. C., T. G. Reid, L. A. Randall, L. E. Lachowsky, D. J. Foster, C. J. Pengelly, T. Latty and M. L. Reid. 2013. Influences of movement behavior on animal distributions at edges of homogeneous patches. International Journal of Zoology 2013: Article ID 602845.
• Reid, M. L. and J. R. C. Purcell. 2011. Condition-dependent tolerance of monoterpenes in an insect herbivore. Arthropod-Plant Interactions 5:331-337.
• Elkin C.M. and M.L. Reid. 2010. Shifts in breeding habitat selection behaviour in response to population density. Oikos 119:1070-1080
• Reid, M.L. and O. Baruch. 2010. Mutual mate choice by mountain pine beetles: size-dependence but not size-assortative mating. Ecological Entomology  35:69-76.
• Latty T.M. and M.L. Reid. 2010. Who goes first? Condition and danger dependent pioneering in a group-living beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Behavioral  Ecology and Sociobiology 64:639-646.
• Latty, T. M. and Reid, M. L. 2009. First in line or first in time? Effects of settlement order and arrival date on reproduction  of a group-living beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae. Journal of Animal Ecology 78: 549-555.
• Trzcinski, M. K. and Reid, M. L. 2009. Intrinsic and extrinsic determinants of mountain pine beetle population growth. Agricultural and Forest Entomology 11: 185-196.
• Trzcinski, M. K. and Reid, M. L. 2008. Effect of management on the spatial spread of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) in Banff National Park. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 1418-1426.
• Stamps, J. A., V. V. Krishnan and M. L. Reid. 2005. Search costs and habitat selection by dispersers. Ecology 86: 510-518.
• Elkin, C. M. and M. L. Reid. 2005. Low energy reserves and energy allocation decisions affect reproduction by mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae). Functional Ecology 19: 102-109.

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