Tree-ring evidence of larch sawfly outbreaks in western Labrador, Canada

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1542-1549

  Nishimura, Peter H ^a   Laroque, Colin P ^a  

^a MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLACK SPRUCE; BOREAL REGIONS; GRID POINTS; INSECT OUTBREAKS; PICEA MARIANA; REGIONAL SCALE; REGIONAL TRENDS; RESEARCH PROGRAMS; SAMPLING PROTOCOL; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING; TREE RINGS;

FORESTRY;

RESEARCH;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DOMINANCE; INSECT; PEST OUTBREAK; RECONSTRUCTION; RESEARCH PROGRAM; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE RING;

FORESTS; INSECTS; LABRADOR; LARIX; RESEARCH; SAMPLING;

CANADA; LABRADOR; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR;

HEXAPODA; LARIX; LARIX LARICINA; PICEA MARIANA; PRISTIPHORA ERICHSONII;

EID: 77958053655     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-091     Document Type: Article

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