Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest: Bark beetle responses to differences in forest structure and the application of prescribed fire in interior ponderosa pine

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 924-935

  Fettig, Christopher J ^a   Borys, Robert R ^a   McKelvey, Stephen R ^a   Dabney, Christopher P ^a  

^a PACIFIC SOUTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES;

BARK BEETLES; MECHANICAL THINNING;

FORESTRY;

BARK; BEETLE; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIRE; MORTALITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; THINNING;

BARK; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; MORTALITY;

BLACK MOUNTAIN; CALIFORNIA; COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS BREVICOMIS; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; IPS; PINUS MUGO; PINUS PONDEROSA; SCOLYTINAE; SCOLYTUS VENTRALIS;

EID: 40949148337     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X07-243     Document Type: Article

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