Simulations of the effects of changes in mean fire return intervals on balsam fir abundance, and implications for spruce budworm outbreaks

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 218, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 207-218

  Bouchard, Mathieu ^a   Pothier, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fire ecology; Fire model; Fire size; Insect ecology; Landscape ecology; Natural disturbances; Spruce budworm; Succession model

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

BOREAL FORESTS; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; DATA SETS; FIRE ECOLOGY; FIRE MODEL; FIRE SIZE; INSECT ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LATE-SUCCESSIONAL FORESTS; LITTLE ICE AGE; LOGISTIC GROWTH; MODEL BASED; NATURAL DISTURBANCES; POST-FIRE; SPRUCE BUDWORM; SPRUCE BUDWORM OUTBREAKS; SUCCESSION MODEL; WEIBULL FUNCTIONS;

FIRES;

ABUNDANCE; AGE CLASS; BOREAL FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FIRE; GROWTH RESPONSE; MOTH; PEST OUTBREAK; SUCCESSION;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGY; FIRES; FORESTS; INSECTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ABIES BALSAMEA; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; HEXAPODA; PICEA;

EID: 52149107544     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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