Spruce budworm defoliation and growth loss in young balsam fir: Patterns of shoot, needle and foliage weight production over a nine-year outbreak cycle

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 123, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 115-133

  Piene, Harald ^a   MacLean, David A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abies balsamea; Choristoneura fumiferana; Defoliation effects; Foliage parameters; Spacing

Indexed keywords

ABIES BALSAMEA; DEFOLIATION;

INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

PATTERN RECOGNITION; PEST CONTROL; PEST DAMAGE; SPACING; TREE;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; ANIMALIA; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; INSECTA; NEMATODA; PICEA;

EID: 0033536939     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(99)00023-7     Document Type: Article

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