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John A. Byers is a researcher affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel, focusing primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering. Their work spans several subfields including Insect Science, Ecology, Plant Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Genetics.

Their scientific contributions often address topics related to forest insect ecology and management, insect and pesticide research, insect-plant interactions and control, insect pest control strategies, insect and arachnid ecology and behavior, additive manufacturing materials and processes, and insect behavior and control techniques.

Notable recent publications by John A. Byers include:

  • Protecting avocado trees from ambrosia beetles by repellents and mass trapping (push-pull): experiments and simulations, 2021, Journal of Pest Science
  • Semiochemicals Affecting Attraction of Ambrosia Beetle Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) to Quercivorol: Developing Push-Pull Control, 2020, Journal of Economic Entomology

Frequent co-authors in their research include Anat Levi−Zada, Daniela Fefer, Yonatan Maoz, Jennifer Bennett, and Samantha Webster.

John A. Byers has published extensively in journals such as:

  • Journal of Chemical Ecology
  • Die Naturwissenschaften
  • Methods in Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Pest Science
  • Journal of Economic Entomology

Best Publications

  • Animal play : evolutionary, comparative, and ecological perspectives

    Marc Bekoff;John Alexander Byers

  • Potential of Mass Trapping for Long-Term Pest Management and Eradication of Invasive Species

    A. M. El-Sayed;D. M. Suckling;C. H. Wearing;J. A. Byers

  • Female mate choice based upon male motor performance

    John Byers;Eileen Hebets;Jeffrey Podos

  • Chemical ecology of bark beetles

    J. A. Byers

  • Refining the Motor Training Hypothesis for the Evolution of Play

    John A. Byers;Curt Walker

  • Potential of "lure and kill" in long-term pest management and eradication of invasive species.

    A. M. El-Sayed;D. M. Suckling;J. A. Byers;E. B. Jang

  • Host-Tree Chemistry Affecting Colonization in Bark Beetles

    John A. Byers

  • Olfactory recognition of host-tree susceptibility by pine shoot beetles

    J. A. Byers;B. S. Lanne;J. Löfqvist;F. Schlyter

  • Attraction of bark beetles, Tomicus piniperda, Hylurgops palliatus, and Trypodendron domesticum and other insects to short-chain alcohols and monoterpenes.

    John A. Byers

  • Effective attraction radius : A method for comparing species attractants and determining densities of flying insects.

    John A. Byers;Olle Anderbrant;Jan Löqvist

  • CORRELATED RANDOM WALK EQUATIONS OF ANIMAL DISPERSAL RESOLVED BY SIMULATION

    John A. Byers

  • Attractive and inhibitory pheromones produced in the bark beetle,Dendroctonus brevicomis, during host colonization: Regulation of inter- and intraspecific competition.

    John A. Byers;David L. Wood;John Craig;Larry B. Hendry

  • Good genes sexual selection in nature

    John A. Byers;Lisette Waits

  • Field response of spruce bark beetle,Ips typographus, to aggregation pheromone candidates.

    Fredrik Schlyter;Göran Birgersson;John A. Byers;Jan Löfqvist

  • Interspecific inhibition of the response of the bark beetles,Dendroctonus brevicomis andIps paraconfusus, to their pheromones in the field

    J. A. Byers;D. L. Wood

  • Chemical Ecology of Bark Beetles in a Complex Olfactory Landscape

    J.A. Byers

  • Volatiles from Nonhost Birch Trees Inhibit Pheromone Response in Spruce Bark Beetles

    John A. Byers;Qing-He Zhang;Fredrik Schlyter;Göran Birgersson

  • Pronghorn females choose vigorous mates

    John A. Byers;James D. Moodie;Nicho Hall

  • Attraction to pheromone sources of different quantity, quality, and spacing: Density-regulation mechanisms in bark beetleIps typographus.

    Fredrik Schlyter;John A. Byers;Jan Löfqvist

  • An encounter rate model of bark beetle populations searching at random for susceptible host trees

    John A. Byers

Frequent Co-Authors

Fredrik Schlyter
Fredrik Schlyter Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
Wittko Francke
Wittko Francke Universität Hamburg
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona
Cesar Rodriguez-Saona Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Andreas Jürgens
Andreas Jürgens Technical University of Darmstadt
Eric B. Jang
Eric B. Jang Agricultural Research Service
Torbjörn Norin
Torbjörn Norin Royal Institute of Technology
Peter J. Anderson
Peter J. Anderson Monash University
Olle Anderbrant
Olle Anderbrant Lund University

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