Modelling Spatial Interactions Among Fire, Spruce Budworm, and Logging in the Boreal Forest

Ecosystems

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-75

  James, Patrick M A ^a,e   Fortin, M J ^a   Sturtevant, B R ^b   Fall, A ^c   Kneeshaw, D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Gowlland Technologies Ltd   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

dynamic feedbacks; forest disturbance; forest management; landscape legacies; landscape pattern metrics; spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FOREST; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DEFOLIATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HARVESTING; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LARVA; LOGGING (TIMBER); MORTALITY; MOTH; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; SUSTAINABILITY;

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; HEXAPODA; PICEA;

EID: 79551645305     PISSN: 14329840     EISSN: 14350629     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10021-010-9395-5     Document Type: Article

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