AUTHOR=Bonello Pierluigi , Campbell Faith T. , Cipollini Don , Conrad Anna O. , Farinas Coralie , Gandhi Kamal J. K. , Hain Fred P. , Parry Dylan , Showalter David N. , Villari Caterina , Wallin Kimberly F. TITLE=Invasive Tree Pests Devastate Ecosystems—A Proposed New Response Framework JOURNAL=Frontiers in Forests and Global Change VOLUME=3 YEAR=2020 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/forests-and-global-change/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2020.00002 DOI=10.3389/ffgc.2020.00002 ISSN=2624-893X ABSTRACT=

Maintenance and restoration of forest ecosystems will be key to achieving necessary carbon sequestration goals, protecting biodiversity, and supporting healthy economies and societies. Forest ecosystems are increasingly threatened by non-native forest insects and pathogens. A portion of these pests are able to overcome prevention and containment efforts and become established in naïve ecosystems. Once established these pests pose a long-term large-scale threat to forest ecosystems, which current policy and response frameworks are poorly equipped to address. We propose the creation of a federal Center for Forest Pest Control and Prevention to implement end-to-end responses to forest pest invasions using an ecologically-informed framework that fully integrates host tree resistance development and deployment.