Heat waves that trigger severe droughts are predicted to increase globally; however, we lack an understanding of how trees respond to the combined change of extreme temperatures and water availability. Here, we studied the impacts of two consecutive heat waves as well as post-stress recovery in young Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco (Douglas-fir) and Robinia pseudoacacia L. (black locust) g...

We produced pellets from five invasive non-native tree species growing in Slovenia on a laboratory pelleting device, namely: wild chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum), boxelder maple (Acer negundo), black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia), thorny (Gleditsia triacanthos) and of heaven (Ailanthus altissima), as well mixtures the raw material above spruce (Picea abies) ratios 70:30 50:50. Under same prod...

Under given environmental conditions, the desert locust (Schistocera gregaria) forms destructive migratory swarms of billions of animals, leading to enormous crop losses in invaded regions. Swarm formation requires massive reproduction as well as aggregation of the animals. Pheromones that are detected via the olfactory system have been reported to control both reproductive and aggregation beha...

Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.) is a tree species of high economic and ecological value, but is also considered to be highly invasive. Understanding the global potential distribution and ecological characteristics of this species is a prerequisite for its practical exploitation as a resource. Here, a maximum entropy modeling (MaxEnt) was used to simulate the potential distribution of thi...

This paper presents the implementation and performance evaluation of Locust, a compiler-directed distributed shared memory system on a network of workstations. The thesis of the Locust project is that the distributed shared memory program performance can closely approximate message passing program performance if compiler-generated data dependency information is eeectively exploited. Locust uses...

Aim Many invasive plant species benefit from enemy release resulting the absence of insect herbivores in their invaded range. However, over time, specialized may ‘catch up’ with such plants. Black locust is a tree relatively limited native range North America but has large areas virtually every temperate continent including America. We hypothesize that both intra- and intercontinental spread bl...

The Asian Migratory locust (Locusta migratoria migratoria L.) is a pest that continuously threatens crops in the Amudarya River delta near the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan, Central Asia. Its development coincides with the growing period of its main food plant, a tall reed grass (Phragmites australis), which represents the predominant vegetation in the delta and which cover vast areas of the former Ar...