Effects of fire return rates on traversability of lodgepole pine forests for mountain pine beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) and the use of patch metrics to estimate traversability

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 137, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 566-583

  Barclay, Hugh J ^a   Li, Chao ^b   Benson, Laura ^a   Taylor, Steve ^a   Shore, Terry ^a  

^a PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; BEETLE; FIRE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; PEST RESISTANCE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PINACEAE; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 30744440897     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/N05-026     Document Type: Article

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