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2002
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Overview

John A. Byers is affiliated with the University of Idaho in the United States and conducts research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Environmental Science, and Engineering.

Their work spans several subfields, including Insect Science, Ecology, Plant Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Genetics. Key topics addressed in their research involve 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.

The scientist's recent publications include the following:

  • Circadian rhythms of insect pheromone titer, calling, emission, and response: a review (2021) in Die Naturwissenschaften
  • Protecting avocado trees from ambrosia beetles by repellents and mass trapping (push-pull): experiments and simulations (2021) in Journal of Pest Science
  • Semiochemicals Affecting Attraction of Ambrosia Beetle Euwallacea fornicatus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) to Quercivorol: Developing Push-Pull Control (2020) in Journal of Economic Entomology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with them include Anat Levi−Zada, Daniela Fefer, Yonatan Maoz, Jennifer Bennett, and Samantha Webster.

Their research is regularly published in venues such as the Journal of Chemical Ecology, Die Naturwissenschaften, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Journal of Pest Science, and 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

  • American Pronghorn: Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past

    John A. Byers

  • Chemical ecology of bark beetles

    J. A. Byers

  • Refining the Motor Training Hypothesis for the Evolution of Play

    John A. Byers;Curt Walker

  • Host-Tree Chemistry Affecting Colonization in Bark Beetles

    John A. Byers

  • 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

  • Sex-specific maternal investment in pronghorn, and the question of a limit on differential provisioning in ungulates

    John A. Byers;James D. Moodie

  • 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

  • A large cost of female mate sampling in pronghorn.

    John A. Byers;Patryce A. Wiseman;Lee Jones;Thomas J. Roffe

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

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

  • 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

  • Do pronghorn mothers reveal the locations of their hidden fawns

    John A. Byers;Karen Z. Byers

  • Social, Spacing, and Cooperative Behavior of the Collared Peccary, Tayassu tajacu

    John A. Byers;John A. Byers;Marc Bekoff;Marc Bekoff

  • Age-related changes in reproductive effort of male bison

    Christine R. Maher;John A. Byers

  • Kin recognition in vertebrates: what do we really know about adaptive value?

    Andrew R. Blaustein;Marc Bekoff;John A. Byers;Thomas J. Daniels

  • Effect of trap color and height on captures of blunt-nosed and sharp-nosed leafhoppers (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) and non-target arthropods in cranberry bogs

    Cesar R. Rodriguez-Saona;John A. Byers;Daniel Schiffhauer

  • Mating system shift in a pronghorn population

    John A. Byers;David W. Kitchen

  • Evaluation of color traps for monitoring Lygus spp.: Design, placement, height, time of day, and non-target effects

    Jacquelyn L. Blackmer;John A. Byers;Cesar Rodriguez-Saona

  • Energetic cost of locomotor play in pronghorn fawns

    Michellen N. Miller;John A. Byers

  • Environmental effects on prenatal growth rate in pronghorn and bighorn: further evidence for energy constraint on sex-biased maternal expenditure

    John A. Byers;John T. Hogg

  • MICROSATELLITE ANALYSIS REVEALS MULTIPLE PATERNITY IN A POPULATION OF WILD PRONGHORN ANTELOPES (ANTILOCAPRA AMERICANA)

    Matthew D. Carling;Patryce Avsharian Wiseman;John A. Byers

  • Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation

    John A. Byers

Frequent Co-Authors

Lisette P. Waits
Lisette P. Waits University of Idaho
Marc Bekoff
Marc Bekoff University of Colorado Boulder
Eileen A. Hebets
Eileen A. Hebets University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Douglas W. Smith
Douglas W. Smith National Park Service
Niko Balkenhol
Niko Balkenhol University of Göttingen
Jeffrey Podos
Jeffrey Podos University of Massachusetts Amherst
Andrew R. Blaustein
Andrew R. Blaustein Oregon State University
Fanie Pelletier
Fanie Pelletier Université de Sherbrooke

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