Do mountain pine beetle outbreaks change the probability of active crown fire in lodgepole pine forests?

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-24

  Simard, Martin ^a,c   Romme, William H ^b   Griffin, Jacob M ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c Pavillon Abitibi Price ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Chronosequence; Compound disturbances; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Disturbance interactions; Fire behavior modeling; Fuel loads; Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; Insect fire interactions; Linked disturbances; Lodgepole pine; Mountain pine beetle; Pinus contorta; Rocky Mountains

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BULK DENSITY; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST FIRE; MICROCLIMATE; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PROBABILITY; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; WIND VELOCITY;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES; WYOMING;

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

EID: 79551551597     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1176.1     Document Type: Article

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