Bark beetle-caused mortality in a drought-affected ponderosa pine landscape in Arizona, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1353-1362

  Negrón, José F ^a   McMillin, Joel D ^b   Anhold, John A ^b   Coulson, Dave ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Drought; Ips; Pinus ponderosa; Ponderosa pine

Indexed keywords

DROUGHT;

ARIZONA (CO); ARIZONA , USA; BARK BEETLES; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; FIRE-SUPPRESSION; IPS; IPS PINI; LOGISTIC MODELS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION (LR) MODEL; PINE FORESTS; PINUS PONDEROSA; PONDEROSA PINE; SCOLYTINAE; SOUTHWEST (CO); STAND DENSITY INDEX (SDI); TREE DENSITY; TREE DIAMETERS; TREE MORTALITY;

FORESTRY;

BARK; BEETLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DROUGHT; GRAZING;

DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INSECTS; LAND USE; MORTALITY; PINUS PONDEROSA;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; IPS; IPS CALLIGRAPHUS; IPS INTEGER; IPS KNAUSI; IPS LATIDENS; IPS LECONTEI; IPS PINI; PINUS PONDEROSA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 58649113844     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.12.002     Document Type: Article

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