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Kenneth F. Raffa

University of Wisconsin–Madison · US
Area of research
Insect Science · Ecology
Research interest
Research interests include Forest Insect Ecology and Management, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Insect and Pesticide Research, and Plant and animal studies.
h-index
81
citations
25,572
works
440
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

What Is a Specialist? Quantifying Host Breadth Enables Impact Prediction for Invasive Herbivores.
2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Population phase-dependent niche requirements may limit outbreaks of the range-expanding mountain pine beetle in the western boreal forest
Forest Ecology and Management 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Oviposition behavior of the quasi-gregarious parasitoid, Ooencyrtus kuvanae (Hymenoptera: Encyrtidae).
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
Approaches to Forecasting Damage by Invasive Forest Insects and Pathogens: A Cross-Assessment
BioScience 2023cited by 31position: contributordoi
Phylogenetic risk assessment is robust for forecasting the impact of European insects on North American conifers.
2023cited by 7position: contributordoi
Additional file 2 of Chromosome-level genome assembly and population genomic analyses provide insights into adaptive evolution of the red turpentine beetle, Dendroctonus valens
Figshare 2022cited by 0position: middledoi
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 2022cited by 0position: middledoi
Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Europe: State of Knowledge and Ways Forward for Management
Current Forestry Reports 2021cited by 419position: middledoi
Combined drought and bark beetle attacks deplete non-structural carbohydrates and promote death of mature pine trees.
2021cited by 17position: contributordoi
Predicting non-native insect impact: focusing on the trees to see the forest
Biological Invasions 2021cited by 10position: contributordoi
Root Secondary Metabolites in Populus tremuloides: Effects of Simulated Climate Warming, Defoliation, and Genotype.
2021cited by 4position: contributordoi
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Plant, Cell & Environment 2021cited by 0position: contributordoi
The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire
Scientific Data 2020cited by 29position: middledoi
Why do entomologists and plant pathologists approach trophic relationships so differently? Identifying biological distinctions to foster synthesis.
2020cited by 8position: contributordoi
Anatomical defences against bark beetles relate to degree of historical exposure between species and are allocated independently of chemical defences within trees.
2019cited by 17position: contributordoi
The value of linking paleoecological and neoecological perspectives to understand spatially-explicit ecosystem resilience
Landscape Ecology 2018cited by 40position: middledoi
Anatomical defences against bark beetles relate to degree of historical exposure between species and are allocated independently of chemical defences within trees
Plant Cell & Environment 2018cited by 39position: middledoi
Defence syndromes in lodgepole – whitebark pine ecosystems relate to degree of historical exposure to mountain pine beetles
Plant Cell & Environment 2017cited by 76position: firstdoi
Recent and future climate suitability for whitebark pine mortality from mountain pine beetles varies across the western US
Forest Ecology and Management 2017cited by 31position: middledoi
Climate influences on whitebark pine mortality from mountain pine beetle in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
Ecological Applications 2016cited by 87position: middledoi
Tree mortality from drought, insects, and their interactions in a changing climate
New Phytologist 2015cited by 950position: middledoi

Grants

A Conceptual and Mechanistic Approach to Understanding Interactions among Multiple Disturbance Agents: Compound Effects of Fire on Resource Availability to Bark Beetles
NSF0816541$543,8052008–2012PIRePORTER
LTREB: Interaction of Below- and Above- Ground Herbivory in Forest Gap Formation:Long-Term Analysis of Underlying Mechanisms and Spatio-temporal Patterns
NSF0314215$348,2332003–2009PIRePORTER
Density-Dependent Host Acceptance Behavior as a Possible Contributing Factor to the Population Dynamics of Insect Herbivores
NSF9629776$210,0001997–1999PIRePORTER
Altered Semiochemistry as a Source of Partial Escape from Predators Responding to Insect Pheromones
NSF9408264$262,6451994–1997PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 10 papers (2020–2025)Matthew P. Ayres · Dartmouth College3 papers (2021–2025)Kamal J. K. Gandhi · University of Georgia3 papers (2021–2025)Andrew M. Liebhold · US Forest Service3 papers (2021–2025)Ashley N. Schulz · Arkansas State University3 papers (2021–2025)Angela M. Mech · University of Maine3 papers (2021–2025) · 3 papers (2021–2025)Nathan P Havill · United States Department of Agriculture3 papers (2021–2025)Kathryn A. Thomas · Springer Nature3 papers (2021–2025)Ruth A. Hufbauer · Colorado State University3 papers (2021–2025)Travis D. Marsico · Arkansas State University3 papers (2021–2025)Patrick C. Tobin · Pennsylvania State University3 papers (2021–2025)Angela M. Hoover · The Pennsylvania State University3 papers (2021–2025)Daniel R. Uden · American Meteorological Society3 papers (2021–2025)Daniel A. Herms · Vall d'Hebron Hospital Universitari3 papers (2021–2025)Philip A. Townsend · University of Minnesota2 papers (2017–2018) · 2 papers (2022–2022)Stephen P. Cook · University of Idaho2 papers (2017–2018)Pierluigi Bonello · The Ohio State University2 papers (2017–2018) · 2 papers (2017–2018)