Climate factors associated with historic spruce beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) outbreaks in Utah and Colorado

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 281-292

  Hebertson, Elizabeth G ^a   Jenkins, Michael J ^b  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and regression tree analysis; Climate; Disturbance ecology; Engelmann spruce; Spruce beetle

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CHRONOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; CLIMATE EFFECT; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HISTORICAL RECORD; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

ANIMAL; BEETLE; CLIMATE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CLIMATE; COLORADO; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; UTAH;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII;

EID: 43649106564     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[281:CFAWHS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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