Structure and function of wildfire and mountain pine beetle forest boundaries

Ecography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 309-318

  J B McIntire, Eliot ^a,c   Fortin, Marie Josée ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BOUNDARY; EVERGREEN FOREST; LANDSCAPE; WILDFIRE;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 33745074613     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2006.0906-7590.04278.x     Document Type: Article

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