Interactions between fire and spruce beetles in a subalpine rocky mountain forest landscape

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 362-371

  Bebi, Peter ^a,b   Kulakowski, Dominik ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Abies lasiocarpa; Aerial photographs; Dendroctonus rufipennis; Disturbance, large scale; Forest fire; Historical map; Modeling, GIS; Picea engelmannii

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST FIRE; GIS; PEST OUTBREAK; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; SCOLYTIDAE; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 0042815084     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2003)084[0362:IBFASB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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