Whitebark pine vulnerability to climate-driven mountain pine beetle disturbance in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Ecological Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 895-902

  Logan, Jesse A ^a   Macfarlane, William W ^b   Louisa, Willcox ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b GeoGrapics Incorporated   (United States)

^c Natural Resources Defense Council   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Disturbance ecology; Ecological resiliency; Global warming; Greater yellowstone ecosystem; Historic range of variability; Lodgepole pine; Mountain ecology; Mountain pine beetle; Pinus albacaulis; Whitebark pine

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; POPULATION OUTBREAK; VULNERABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; PINUS;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 77953160102     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0655.1     Document Type: Article

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