Regeneration beneath lodgepole pine dominated stands attacked or threatened by the mountain pine beetle in the south central Interior, British Columbia

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Vyse, Alan ^a   Ferguson, Christine ^b   Huggard, David J ^b   Roach, Jean ^b   Zimonick, Barbara ^b  

^a THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Advance regeneration; British Columbia; Forest renewal; Lodgepole pine; Mountain pine beetle; Timber salvage

Indexed keywords

BRITISH COLUMBIA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; FOREST MANAGERS; GERMINANTS; HIGH ELEVATION; LODGEPOLE PINE; LOW LEVEL; MEAN DENSITY; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; PINE SPECIES; PINUS CONTORTA VAR. LATIFOLIA; SALVAGE OPERATIONS; SOUTH-CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SUB-ALPINE FIR; THRESHOLD DENSITY; TIMBER SPECIES;

LANDFORMS; TIMBER;

REFORESTATION;

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DOMINANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; TIMBER HARVESTING; UNDERSTORY;

ABIES LASIOCARPA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; FORESTS; INSECTS; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; REFORESTATION; SALVAGE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PICEA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 71649116203     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.08.027     Document Type: Article

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