Assessing dendroecological methods to reconstruct defoliator outbreaks on Nothofagus pumilio in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1617-1629

  Paritsis, J ^a   Veblen, T T ^a   Kitzberger, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b LABORATORIO ECOTONO   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE PROCEDURES; ARGENTINA; CLIMATIC CONTROLS; CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RESPONSE; INSECT OUTBREAKS; NOTHOFAGUS; PATAGONIA; SITE-SPECIFIC; STUDY AREAS; TREE RINGS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CONTROL;

CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DENDROECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GROWTH RESPONSE; MOTH; PALEOBOTANY; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PEST OUTBREAK; RAINFOREST; RECONSTRUCTION; TEMPERATE FOREST; TREE RING;

CLIMATES; DEFOLIATION; FORESTS; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO; PATAGONIA; SEASONAL VARIATION;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

AUSTROCEDRUS CHILENSIS; CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA; NOTHOFAGUS PUMILIO; SATURNIIDAE;

EID: 70249151456     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X09-085     Document Type: Article

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