Interactions among prescribed fire, herbivore pressure and shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata) regeneration following southern pine beetle (Dendroctonus frontalis) mortality

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 235, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 260-269

  Land, Aerin D ^a   Rieske, Lynne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conifer sawflies; Herbivory; Pine weevils; Regeneration insects; Seedling growth; Tip moths

Indexed keywords

CONIFER SAWFLIES; HERBIVORY; PINE WEEVILS; REGENERATION INSECTS; SEEDLING GROWTH; TIP MOTHS;

FIRES; FORESTRY; SEED;

ECOLOGY;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST FIRE; GROWTH RATE; HERBIVORY; MORTALITY; REGENERATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; SURVIVAL;

ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTRY; SEEDLINGS;

COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; DIPRIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYLOBIUS PALES; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; MAMMALIA; PINUS ECHINATA; PISSODES NEMORENSIS; RHYACIONIA FRUSTRANA;

EID: 33749531717     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.08.336     Document Type: Article

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