Capturing community context of human response to forest disturbance by insects: A multi-method assessment

Human Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 567-579

  Qin, Hua ^a   Flint, Courtney G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Community context; Forest disturbance; Individual actions; Multilevel modeling; Regression techniques

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEETLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MODELING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PUBLIC ATTITUDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 77955269293     PISSN: 03007839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10745-010-9334-2     Document Type: Article

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