Disturbance, structure, and composition: Spruce beetle and Engelmann spruce forests on the Markagunt Plateau, Utah

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 244, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 16-23

  DeRose, R Justin ^a   Long, James N ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Spruce fir' forest; Disturbance ecology; Resilience; Species diversity; Spruce beetle

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY;

BEETLE OUTBREAK; DISTURBANCE ECOLOGY; SPRUCE BEETLE;

FORESTRY;

AGE STRUCTURE; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; DOMINANCE; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

INSECTS; PICEA; RESILIENCE;

MARKAGUNT PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS FLEXILIS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 34248380134     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.065     Document Type: Article

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