Regeneration response and seedling bank dynamics on a Dendroctonus rufipennis-killed Picea engelmannii landscape

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 377-387

  DeRose, R Justin ^a   Long, James N ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance regeneration; Aspen herbivory; Browsing pressure; Disturbance ecology; Engelmann spruce; Regeneration ecology; Spruce beetle; Subalpine fir

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HERBIVORY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; OVERSTORY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; REGENERATION; SEEDLING; UNGULATE;

UNITED STATES; UTAH;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PICEA PUNGENS; PINUS FLEXILIS; PINUS PONDEROSA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; UNGULATA;

EID: 77949667204     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2009.01150.x     Document Type: Article

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