Response of understory vegetation to variable tree mortality following a mountain pine beetle epidemic in lodgepole pine stands in northern Utah

Vegetatio

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Stone, William E ^a   Wolfe, Michael L ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community organization; Coniferous forest; Diversity; Forest gaps; Intermediate disturbance hypothesis; Plant abundance; Plant distribution

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; PEST ATTACK; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TREE MORTALITY; UNDERSTOREY VEGETATION; VEGETATION PATCHINESS;

USA, UTAH;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; SCOLYTIDAE; TSUGA MERTENSIANA; PINUS CONTORTA;

EID: 0030062233     PISSN: 00423106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00052811     Document Type: Article

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