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A response to “Media representation of hemlock woolly adelgid management risks: a case study of science communication and invasive species control,” published in biological invasions online on September 18, 2018

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  1. http://www.thedailytimes.com/news/treatments-slowing-down-invasive-beetle-in-great-smoky-mountains-national/article_bd2078fd-d0b8-583a-9f36-1b68021ed337.html.

  2. http://www.local8now.com/content/news/Great-Smoky-Mountains-National-Park-in-constant-battle-with-invasive-species--388168552.html.

  3. http://tntoday.utk.edu/2016/02/25/hemlock-woolly-adelgid-winter-activity-possibly-linked-climate-change/.

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  1. Department of Entomology, Virginia Tech, 216 Price Hall, Blacksburg, VA, 24061-0319, USA

    Scott M. Salom, Jeremiah Foley, Carrie Jubb & Tom McAvoy

  2. Forest Health Protection, Northern and Intermountain Regions, USDA Forest Service, 3815 N. Schreiber Way, Coeur d’Alene, ID, 83815, USA

    Gina Davis

  3. Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts, 310 Ag Engineering Bldg., Amherst, MA, 01003, USA

    Joseph Elkinton

  4. Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 51 Mill Pond Rd., Hamden, CT, 06514, USA

    Nathan Havill & R. Talbot Trotter III

  5. RWU 4552 Insects, Diseases and Invasive Plants, Southern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 200 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville, NC, 28804, USA

    Albert Mayfield

  6. Forest Health Protection, Southern Region, USDA Forest Service, 200 W.T. Weaver Blvd., Asheville, NC, 28804, USA

    Rusty Rhea

  7. Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University, 106 Fernow Hall, Ithaca, NY, 14853, USA

    Mark Whitmore

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Salom, S.M., Davis, G., Elkinton, J. et al. A response to “Media representation of hemlock woolly adelgid management risks: a case study of science communication and invasive species control,” published in biological invasions online on September 18, 2018. Biol Invasions 21, 2009–2017 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-019-01953-7

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