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Aukema, J.E., B. Leung, K. Kovacs, C. Chivers, K. O. Britton, J. Englin, S.J. Frankel, R. G. Haight, T. P. Holmes, A. Liebhold, D.G. McCullough, B. Von Holle.. 2011. Economic Impacts of Non-Native Forest Insects in the Continental United States PLoS One September 2011 (Volume 6 Issue 9) http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0024587
Aukema, J.E., D.G. McCullough, B. Von Holle, A.M. Liebhold, K. Britton, & S.J. Frankel. 2010. Historical Accumulation of Nonindigenous Forest Pests in the Continental United States. Bioscience. December 2010 / Vol. 60 No. 11 http://www.aibs.org/bioscience-press-releases/resources/Aukema.pdf
Hallett, R., Hallett, T. 2018. Citizen science and tree health assessment: How useful are the data? Arboriculture & Urban Forestry. 44(6): 236-247. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/57408
Holmes, T.P. 2010. Confronting challenges to economic analysis of biological invasions in forests. Scion New Zealand Journal of Forestry Science. 40 Suppl. (2010) S105-S116. http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/36436
Holmes, T.P., E.A. Murphy, K.P. Bell, and D.D. Royle. 2010. Property Value Impacts of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid in Residential Forests. Forest Science 56(6) 2010 http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/37976
Holmes, T.P., J.E. Aukema, B. van Holle, A. Liebhold, and E. Sills. 2009. Economic Impacts of Invasive Species in Forests, Past, Present, and Future. The Year in Ecology and Conservation Biology, 2009: Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 1162: 18–38 (2009) http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/36267
Holmes, T.P., A.M. Liebhold, K.F. Kovacs, B. Von Holle. 201O. A spatial-dynamic value transfer model of economic losses from a biological invasion. Ecological Economics 70 (2010) 86-95. http://treesearch.fs.fed.us/pubs/36678
Kovacs, K.F., R.G. Haight, D.G. McCullough, R.J. Mercader, N.W. Siegert, A.M. Liebhold. 2009. Cost of potential EAB damage in U.S. communities, 2009–2019. Ecological Economics (2009) http://snr.unl.edu/invasives/pdfs/kovacs%20et%20al%202009%20EAB.pdf
Kovacs, K., T.P. Holmes, J.E. Englin, J. Alexander. 2010. Environ Resource Econ (2011) 49:445–471.
Kovacs, K.F., R.J. Mercader, R.G. Haight, N.W. Siegert, D.G. McCullough, A.M. Liebhold. 2011. The influence of satellite populations of emerald ash borer on projected economic costs in U.S. communities, 2010-2020. Journal of Environmental Management 92 (2011) 2170e2181 http://www.sandyliebhold.com/pubs/Kovacs_etal_2011.pdf
Kovacs, K., T. Václavík, R.G. Haight, A. Pang, N. J. Cunniffe, C.A. Gilligan, R.K. Meentemeyer. 2011. Predicting the economic costs and property value losses attributed to sudden oak death damage in California (2010-2020). Journal of Environmental Management 92 (2011) 1292-1302. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21224033 [please note access might be restricted/cost money]
Liebhold, A.M., E.G. Brockerhoff, L.J. Garrett, J.L. Parke, and K.O. Britton. 2012. Live Plant Imports: the Major Pathway for Forest Insect and Pathogen Invasions of the US. www.frontiersinecology.org , http://www.sandyliebhold.com/pubs/Liebhold_etal_2012.pdf
Liebhold, A.M., D.G. McCullough, L.M Blackburn, S.J. Frankel, B. Von Holle, J.E. Aukema. 2013. A highly aggregated geographical distribution of forest pest invasions in the USA. Diversity and Distributions 2013 (1-9) http://www.nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/43853 , http://www.fs.fed.us/nrs/pubs/jrnl/2013/nrs_2013_liebhold_001.pdf
Pontius, J., Hallett, R. 2014. Comprehensive methods for earlier detection and monitoring of forest decline. Forest Science 60(6): 1156-1163. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/50029

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