Southern pine beetle regional outbreaks modeled on landscape, climate and infestation history

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 473-479

  Duehl, Adrian J ^a   Koch, Frank H ^b   Hain, Fred P ^c  

^a CENTER FOR MEDICAL   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification and Regression Tree; Dendroctonus frontalis; Insect infestation; Logistic regression; Pinus taeda

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; INSECT INFESTATIONS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION; PINUS TAEDA;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; EPIDEMIC; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HOST PLANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LANDSCAPE; LOGISTICS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NATIVE SPECIES; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEST SPECIES; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAND STRUCTURE;

FORESTRY; FORESTS; INFESTATION; INSECTS; PINUS; PINUS TAEDA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; USA;

UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; HEXAPODA; PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 78651253162     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.10.032     Document Type: Article

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