{"id":12375,"date":"2022-06-01T10:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T14:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=12375"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:45","slug":"invasive-insects-will-kill-1-4-million-urban-trees-by-2050","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2022\/invasive-insects-will-kill-1-4-million-urban-trees-by-2050\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasive Insects Will Kill 1.4 Million Urban Trees by 2050"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Invasive Insects Will Kill 1.4 Million Urban Trees by 2050\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-2\">The study was part of lead author Emma Hudgins\u2019 Ph.D. thesis at McGill University in Montreal. Hudgins is now a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-4\">\u201cOver the course of my Ph.D., I had built models to predict how invasive insects would spread and establish across the United States, and I wanted to translate these spread predictions to predictions of ecological and economic impact,\u201d Hudgins tells Treehugger. \u201cI was also fortunate to have access to a new database of urban tree distributions and pest severity estimates from two recent studies, which made this project possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-6\">Researchers specifically concentrated on the effects of the insects on city trees, because they point out that 82% of the U.S. population lives in urban settings and those numbers continue to grow. \u201cMore generally, we were interested in looking at future impacts of urban trees because of their myriad benefits to city-dwellers, combined with the fact that urban areas are important bridgeheads for invasions,\u201d Hudgins says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html\" id=\"mntl-sc-block_1-0-10\">\u201cBeyond looking at current threats, we also wanted to create a list of high-impact characteristics in order to predict future insect invaders that would have the greatest impact that have not yet established in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>to read the full story,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/invasive-insects-kill-million-trees-2050-5271729\">Click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The study was part of lead author Emma Hudgins\u2019 Ph.D. thesis at McGill University in Montreal. Hudgins is now a postdoctoral fellow at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. \u201cOver the course of my Ph.D., I had built models to predict how invasive insects would spread and establish across the United States, and I wanted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12390,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12375\/revisions\/12390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}