Modeling the impacts of two bark beetle species under a warming climate in the southwestern USA: Ecological and economic consequences

Environmental Management

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 824-835

  Waring, Kristen M ^a   Reboletti, Danielle M ^a   Mork, Lauren A ^a   Huang, Ching Hsun ^a   Hofstetter, Richard W ^a   Garcia, Amanda M ^a   Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Davis, T Seth ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Climate; Fire; Forest vegetation simulator

Indexed keywords

ACTION SCENARIOS; BARK BEETLE; BARK BEETLES; BASAL AREA; CLIMATE; CLIMATE SCENARIOS; CLIMATE WARMING; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; DEVELOPMENT MODEL; DROUGHT CONDITIONS; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES; ECONOMIC IMPACTS; ECONOMIC REVENUE; FOREST RESOURCES; FOREST THINNINGS; FOREST VEGETATION SIMULATOR; HABITAT SUITABILITY; NET PRESENT VALUE; SILVICULTURAL TREATMENTS; WARMING CLIMATE;

AMPLIFICATION; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; VEGETATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

BASAL AREA; BEETLE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ECONOMIC REFORM; FOREST FIRE; FOREST RESOURCE; HABITAT MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; SILVICULTURE; WARMING; WILDFIRE;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; DENDROCTONUS MEXICANUS; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FIRE; FOREST; FORESTRY; HABITAT; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; UNITED STATES; WARMING;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; INSECT CONTROL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATES; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; PLANTS;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; DENDROCTONUS MEXICANUS; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 70349762448     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-009-9342-4     Document Type: Article

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