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Jiri Hulcr is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States and has an extensive body of research focused on forest insect ecology and management. Their work predominantly addresses topics related to insect and pesticide research, forest ecology and biodiversity studies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, mycorrhizal fungi and plant interactions, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, as well as insect-plant interactions and control.

Their research contributions span several main fields of study with a primary focus on agricultural and biological sciences and environmental science. Subfields addressed include insect science, ecology, plant science, genetics, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Jiri Hulcr has published numerous articles in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication venues include EDIS, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Forests, Florida Entomologist, and the Journal of Pest Science.

  • Recent advances toward the sustainable management of invasive Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles, 2021, Journal of Pest Science
  • The Essential Role of Taxonomic Expertise in the Creation of DNA Databases for the Identification and Delimitation of Southeast Asian Ambrosia Beetle Species (Curculionidae: Scolytinae: Xyleborini), 2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Revision of the Bark Beetle Genera Within the Former Cryphalini (Curculionidae: Scolytinae), 2020, Insect Systematics and Diversity
  • Bark beetle mycobiome: collaboratively defined research priorities on a widespread insect-fungus symbiosis, 2020, Symbiosis
  • Ability of Remote Sensing Systems to Detect Bark Beetle Spots in the Southeastern US, 2020, Forests

Collaboration plays a significant role in their research, with frequent co-authors including You Li, Andrew J. Johnson, Demian F. Gómez, James Skelton, and Anthony I. Cognato.

Best Publications

  • Guild-specific patterns of species richness and host specialization in plant–herbivore food webs from a tropical forest

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Leontine Baje;Solomon Balagawi

  • The Ambrosia Symbiosis: From Evolutionary Ecology to Practical Management

    Jiri Hulcr;Lukasz L. Stelinski

  • Low beta diversity of herbivorous insects in tropical forests.

    Vojtech Novotny;Scott E. Miller;Jiri Hulcr;Jiri Hulcr;Richard Arthur Ian Drew

  • The sudden emergence of pathogenicity in insect–fungus symbioses threatens naive forest ecosystems

    Jiri Hulcr;Robert R. Dunn

  • Who likes it hot? A global analysis of the climatic, ecological, and evolutionary determinants of warming tolerance in ants

    Sarah E. Diamond;Sarah E. Diamond;D. Magdalena Sorger;D. Magdalena Sorger;Jiri Hulcr;Jiri Hulcr;Shannon L. Pelini

  • Destructive Tree Diseases Associated with Ambrosia and Bark Beetles: Black Swan Events in Tree Pathology?

    Randy C. Ploetz;Jiri Hulcr;Michael J. Wingfield;Z. Wilhelm De Beer

  • When does invasive species removal lead to ecological recovery? Implications for management success

    Kirsten M. Prior;Kirsten M. Prior;Damian C. Adams;Kier D. Klepzig;Jiri Hulcr

  • An inordinate fondness for Fusarium: Phylogenetic diversity of fusaria cultivated by ambrosia beetles in the genus Euwallacea on avocado and other plant hosts

    Matthew T. Kasson;Kerry O’Donnell;Alejandro P. Rooney;Stacy Sink

  • Morphology, Taxonomy, and Phylogenetics of Bark Beetles

    Jiri Hulcr;Thomas H. Atkinson;Anthony I. Cognato;Bjarte H. Jordal

  • The ambrosia symbiosis is specific in some species and promiscuous in others: evidence from community pyrosequencing

    Martin Kostovcik;Craig C Bateman;Miroslav Kolarik;Lukasz L Stelinski

  • Host specificity of ambrosia and bark beetles (Col., Curculionidae: Scolytinae and Platypodinae) in a New Guinea rainforest

    Jiri Hulcr;Martin Mogia;Brus Isua;Vojtech Novotny

  • Discordant phylogenies suggest repeated host shifts in the Fusarium-Euwallacea ambrosia beetle mutualism.

    Kerry O’Donnell;Stacy Sink;Ran Libeskind-Hadas;Jiri Hulcr

  • The Role of Symbiotic Microbes in Insect Invasions

    Min Lu;Jiri Hulcr;Jianghua Sun

  • Cladistic review of generic taxonomic characters in Xyleborina (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

    Jiri Hulcr;Stephanie A. Dole;Roger A. Beaver;Anthony I. Cognato

  • The scent of a partner: ambrosia beetles are attracted to volatiles from their fungal symbionts.

    Jiri Hulcr;Rajinder Mann;Lukasz L. Stelinski

  • Tracing the origin of a cryptic invader: phylogeography of the Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) species complex

    Richard Stouthamer;Paul Rugman-Jones;Pham Q. Thu;Akif Eskalen

  • Identification, pathogenicity and abundance of Paracremonium pembeum sp. nov. and Graphium euwallaceae sp. nov.—two newly discovered mycangial associates of the polyphagous shot hole borer (Euwallacea sp.) in California

    Shannon Colleen Lynch;Mathias Twizeyimana;Joey Sal Mayorquin;Danny Ho Wang

  • Recent advances toward the sustainable management of invasive Xylosandrus ambrosia beetles

    Antonio Gugliuzzo;Peter H. W. Biedermann;Daniel Carrillo;Louela A. Castrillo

  • REPEATED EVOLUTION OF CROP THEFT IN FUNGUS-FARMING AMBROSIA BEETLES

    Jiri Hulcr;Jiri Hulcr;Anthony I. Cognato

  • Geosmithia fungi are highly diverse and consistent bark beetle associates: evidence from their community structure in temperate Europe.

    Miroslav Kolarik;Alena Kubatova;Jiri Hulcr;Jiri Hulcr;Sylvie Pazoutova

  • North American Xyleborini north of Mexico: a review and key to genera and species (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

    Demian F. Gomez;Robert J. Rabaglia;Katherine E. O. Fairbanks;Jiri Hulcr

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony I. Cognato
Anthony I. Cognato Michigan State University
Lukasz L. Stelinski
Lukasz L. Stelinski University of Florida
Bjarte H. Jordal
Bjarte H. Jordal University of Bergen
Randy C. Ploetz
Randy C. Ploetz University of Florida
Robert R. Dunn
Robert R. Dunn North Carolina State University
Zvi Mendel
Zvi Mendel Agricultural Research Organization
Miroslav Kolařík
Miroslav Kolařík Czech Academy of Sciences
Stanley Freeman
Stanley Freeman Agricultural Research Organization
Akif Eskalen
Akif Eskalen University of California, Davis
Kerry O'Donnell
Kerry O'Donnell National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research

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