Identifying significant scale-specific spatial boundaries using wavelets and null models: Spruce budworm defoliation in Ontario, Canada as a case study

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 873-887

  James, Patrick M A ^a,c   Fleming, Richard A ^b   Fortin, Marie Josée ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boundary detection; Spatial analysis; Spruce budworm; Variance decomposition

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; DEFOLIATION; GAUSSIAN METHOD; MOTH; PEST OUTBREAK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; PICEA;

EID: 77953544496     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-010-9465-2     Document Type: Article

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