Predictive models of whitebark pine mortality from mountain pine beetle

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 174, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 495-510

  Perkins, Dana L ^a   Roberts, David W ^b  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized linear models; Host susceptibility; Logistic regression; Mountain pine beetle; Whitebark pine

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

STAND DENSITY INDEX (SDI);

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; MORTALITY; PEST RESISTANCE; PEST SPECIES; REGRESSION;

UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 0037450622     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(02)00066-X     Document Type: Article

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