Density and distribution of advance regeneration in mountain pine beetle killed lodgepole pine stands of the Montane Spruce zone of southern British Columbia

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2826-2836

  Nigh, Gordon D ^a   Antos, Joseph A ^b   Parish, Roberta ^a  

^a RESEARCH BRANCH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ADVANCE REGENERATIONS; BASAL AREAS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; DEVELOPED MODELS; HOPKINS; INSECT OUTBREAKS; LATIFOLIA; LODGEPOLE PINES; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLES; PINUS CONTORTA; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL SCALES;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGENERATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BASAL AREA; DENSITY; FORESTRY; INSECTS; PICEA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS PONDEROSA; REFORESTATION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PICEA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 55549096760     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X08-117     Document Type: Article

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