About the Authors

Christelle Robinet

Affiliation INRA, UR 633 Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France

Alain Roques

Affiliation INRA, UR 633 Zoologie Forestière, Orléans, France

Hongyang Pan

Affiliation The General Forest Pest Control Station, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang, China

Guofei Fang

Affiliation The General Forest Pest Control Station, State Forestry Administration, Shenyang, China

Jianren Ye

Affiliation Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing, China

Yanzhuo Zhang

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Jianghua Sun

sunjh@ioz.ac.cn

Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Pest Insects and Rodents, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AR JHS. Analyzed the data: CR. Wrote the paper: CR. Supervised the research: JHS AR. Developed the model: CR. Did invasion data collection (pinewood nematode): HP GF JY. Gave assistance for data collection (abiotic factors) and translation: YZ.