Effects of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) infestations on forest stand structure in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3563-3570

  Dordel, Julia ^a   Feller, M C ^a   Simard, Suzanne W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Banff National Park; Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins; Fire; Kootenay National Park; Mountain pine beetle; Rocky Mountains; Stand structure

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FIRES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; WOOD WASTES;

PINE BEETLE; STAND STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; BURNING; FOREST FIRE; HERBIVORY; PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STAND STRUCTURE;

BIODIVERSITY; FOREST FIRES; INSECTS; PINUS; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; WOOD WASTE;

ALBERTA; BANFF NATIONAL PARK; BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; KOOTENAY NATIONAL PARK; NORTH AMERICA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 42649101281     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.02.018     Document Type: Article

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