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Brian H. Aukema publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian H. Aukema sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 133 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Brian H. Aukema D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Brian H. Aukema sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 35 D-Index — 14th percentile

14% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Brian H. Aukema is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work spans various subfields including Insect Science, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, and Endocrinology.

The main topics of Aukema's research include:

  • Forest Insect Ecology and Management
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Fire effects on ecosystems
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research

Aukema has contributed frequently to multiple publication venues, with the highest number of works appearing in:

  • Environmental Entomology
  • Forest Ecology and Management
  • Agricultural and Forest Entomology
  • Journal of Insect Science
  • Frontiers in Insect Science

Notable recent papers featuring Aukema's work include:

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world, 2020, Science
  • Warming increased bark beetle-induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California, 2021, Global Change Biology
  • A Guide and Toolbox to Replicability and Open Science in Entomology, 2020, Journal of Insect Science
  • Numbers matter: how irruptive bark beetles initiate transition to self-sustaining behavior during landscape-altering outbreaks, 2022, Oecologia
  • Early detection of Agrilus planipennis: investigations into the attractive range of the sex pheromone (3Z)-lactone, 2020, Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Aukema collaborates regularly with a group of frequent coauthors, including Jacob T. Wittman, Aubree M. Kees, Hailey N Shanovich, Emily R. Althoff, and Kenneth F. Raffa.

In addition to journal articles, Aukema has authored book publications. One recognized work is The Jewel Beetles of Minnesota, published by the University of Minnesota in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Cross-scale Drivers of Natural Disturbances Prone to Anthropogenic Amplification: The Dynamics of Bark Beetle Eruptions

    Kenneth F. Raffa;Brian H. Aukema;Barbara J. Bentz;Allan L. Carroll

  • Pervasive shifts in forest dynamics in a changing world

    Nate G. McDowell;Craig D. Allen;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Kristina J. Anderson-Teixeira;Brian H. Aukema

  • Quantifying the impact of environmental factors on arthropod communities in agricultural landscapes across organizational levels and spatial scales

    O Schweiger;Jean-Pierre Maelfait;W Van Wingerden;Frederik Hendrickx

  • Efficacy of tree defense physiology varies with bark beetle population density: a basis for positive feedback in eruptive species

    Celia K. Boone;Celia K. Boone;Celia K. Boone;Brian H. Aukema;Brian H. Aukema;Brian H. Aukema;Joerg Bohlmann;Allan L. Carroll;Allan L. Carroll

  • Mountain pine beetles colonizing historical and naive host trees are associated with a bacterial community highly enriched in genes contributing to terpene metabolism.

    Aaron S. Adams;Frank O. Aylward;Frank O. Aylward;Sandye M. Adams;Nadir Erbilgin

  • Landscape level analysis of mountain pine beetle in British Columbia, Canada: spatiotemporal development and spatial synchrony within the present outbreak

    Brian H. Aukema;Allan L. Carroll;Jun Zhu;Kenneth F. Raffa

  • Movement of outbreak populations of mountain pine beetle: influences of spatiotemporal patterns and climate

    Brian H. Aukema;Allan L. Carroll;Yanbing Zheng;Jun Zhu

  • Climate change could alter the distribution of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Canada

    Kishan R. Sambaraju;Allan L. Carroll;Jun Zhu;Kerstin Stahl

  • Breach of the northern Rocky Mountain geoclimatic barrier: initiation of range expansion by the mountain pine beetle

    Honey Marie C. de la Giroday;Honey Marie C. de la Giroday;Allan L. Carroll;Brian H. Aukema

  • Does aggregation benefit bark beetles by diluting predation? Links between a group-colonisation strategy and the absence of emergent multiple predator effects

    Brian H. Aukema;Kenneth F. Raffa

  • Exploiting Behavioral Disparities Among Predators and Prey to Selectively Remove Pests: Maximizing the Ratio of Bark Beetles to Predators Removed During Semiochemically Based Trap-Out

    Brian H. Aukema;Donald L. Dahlsten;Kenneth F. Raffa

  • Improved Population Monitoring of Bark Beetles and Predators by Incorporating Disparate Behavioral Responses to Semiochemicals

    Brian H. Aukema;Donald L. Dahlsten;Kenneth F. Raffa

  • Mechanisms of a coniferous woodland persistence under drought and heat

    Nate G. McDowell;Charlotte Grossiord;Charlotte Grossiord;Henry D. Adams;Sara Pinzón-Navarro

  • Side-effects of pesticides on ground-dwelling predatory arthropods in arable ecosystems.

    J.W. Everts;B. Aukema;R. Hengeveld;J.H. Koeman

  • Warming increased bark beetle-induced tree mortality by 30% during an extreme drought in California

    Zachary J. Robbins;Chonggang Xu;Brian H. Aukema;Polly C. Buotte

  • Population dynamics of Ips pini and Ips grandicollis in red pine plantations in Wisconsin: within- and between-year associations with predators, competitors, and habitat quality.

    Nadir Erbilgin;Erik V. Nordheim;Brian H. Aukema;Kenneth F. Raffa

  • Cross-scale drivers of natural disturbances prone to anthropogenic amplification: Dynamics of biome-wide bark beetle eruptions

    Kenneth F. Raffa;Brian H. Aukema;Barbara J. Bentz;Allan L. Carroll

  • Predisposition to bark beetle attack by root herbivores and associated pathogens: Roles in forest decline, gap formation, and persistence of endemic bark beetle populations

    Brian H. Aukema;Brian H. Aukema;Jun Zhu;Jesper Møller;Jakob Gulddahl Rasmussen

  • Association of tree diameter with body size and lipid content of mountain pine beetles

    M. Graf;M. L. Reid;Brian H Aukema;B. S. Lindgren

  • Relative effects of exophytic predation, endophytic predation, and intraspecific competition on a subcortical herbivore: consequences to the reproduction of Ips pini and Thanasimus dubius

    Brian H. Aukema;Kenneth F. Raffa

  • Quantifying sources of variation in the frequency of fungi associated with spruce beetles: implications for hypothesis testing and sampling methodology in bark beetle-symbiont relationships.

    Brian H. Aukema;Brian H. Aukema;Richard A. Werner;Kirsten E. Haberkern;Barbara L. Illman

  • Incoming! Association of landscape features with dispersing mountain pine beetle populations during a range expansion event in western Canada

    Honey Marie C. de la Giroday;Allan L. Carroll;B. Staffan Lindgren;Brian H. Aukema;Brian H. Aukema

  • Responses of tree-killing bark beetles to a changing climate.

    Kenneth F. Raffa;Brian H. Aukema;Barbara J. Bentz;Allan L. Carroll

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth F. Raffa
Kenneth F. Raffa University of Wisconsin–Madison
Robert C. Venette
Robert C. Venette University of Minnesota
Allan L. Carroll
Allan L. Carroll University of British Columbia
Steven J. Seybold
Steven J. Seybold US Forest Service
Chonggang Xu
Chonggang Xu Los Alamos National Laboratory
Barbara J. Bentz
Barbara J. Bentz US Forest Service
Jesper Møller
Jesper Møller Aalborg University
Lara M. Kueppers
Lara M. Kueppers Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Murray K. Clayton
Murray K. Clayton University of Wisconsin–Madison
Jeffrey A. Hicke
Jeffrey A. Hicke University of Idaho

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