Bark beetle outbreaks and fire: A devastating combination for Central America's pine forests

Unasylva

Volumn 55, Issue 217, 2004, Pages 15-21

  Billings, Ronald F ^a   Clarke, Stephen R ^b   Mendoza, Vicente Espino ^c   Cabrera, Pablo Cordón ^d   Figueroa, Benjamin Meléndez ^e   Campos, Juan Ramón ^f   Baeza, Gumercindo ^g  

^a Texas Forest Service   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Corp Hondurena Desarrollo Forestal ^*  (Honduras)

^d Instituto Nacional de Bosques   (Guatemala)

^e Servicio Forestal y de Fauna   (El Salvador)

^f Instituto Nacional Forestal   (Nicaragua)

^g Belize Forestry Department   (Belize)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PEST CONTROL; PEST OUTBREAK;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 6444244197     PISSN: 00416436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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