Modeling long-term effects of altered fire regimes following southern pine beetle outbreaks (North Carolina)

Ecological Restoration

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-26

  Xi, Weimin ^a   Waldron, John D ^b   Lafon, Charles W ^a   Cairns, David M ^c   Birt, Andrew G ^d   Tchakerian, Maria D ^d   Coulson, Robert N ^d   Klepzig, Kier D ^e  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST FLORIDA   (United States)

^c Dept of Geography ^*

^d Knowledge Engineering Lab   (United States)

^e US Forest Service Southern Research Station   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS;

EID: 61849130580     PISSN: 15434060     EISSN: 15434079     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3368/er.27.1.24     Document Type: Article

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