Forest developmental trajectories in mountain pine beetle disturbed forests of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 782-792

  Diskin, Matthew ^a   Rocca, Monique E ^a   Nelson, Kellen N ^a   Aoki, Carissa F ^a   Romme, W H ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MANAGEMENT; CANOPY TREES; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; DOMINANT SPECIES; FOREST CONDITIONS; FOREST STRUCTURE; FOREST TYPE; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; HOPKINS; LATIFOLIA; LODGEPOLE PINE; LODGEPOLE PINE FORESTS; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; PINUS CONTORTA; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; STAND STRUCTURES; SUB-ALPINE FIR; TREE PLANTINGS; TREE SPECIES COMPOSITION;

ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LANDFORMS; PARKS;

REFORESTATION;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MORTALITY; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SAPLING; STAND STRUCTURE;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 79953900518     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x10-247     Document Type: Article

References (38)

1. Amman, G.D. 1977. The role of the mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine ecosystems: impact on succession. In The role of arthropods in forest ecosystems. Edited by W.J. Mattson. Springer-Verlag, New York. pp. 3-18.
2. Astrup, R., Coates, K.D., and Hall, E. 2008. Recruitment limitation in forests: lessons from an unprecedented mountain pine beetle epidemic. For. Ecol. Manage. 256(10): 1743-1750. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2008.07.025.
3. Axelson, J.N., Alfaro, R.I., and Hawkes, B.C. 2009. Influence of fire and mountain pine beetle on the dynamics of lodgepole pine stands in British Columbia, Canada. For. Ecol. Manage. 257(9): 1874-1882. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.01.047.
4. Black, S.H., Kulakowski, D., Noon, B.R., and DellaSala, D. 2010. Insects and roadless forests: scientific review of causes, consequences and management alternatives. National Center for Conservation Science and Policy, Ashland, Oregon.
5. Coates, K.D., DeLong, C., Burton, P.J., and Sachs, D.L. 2006. Report for the Chief Forester: abundance of secondary structure in lodgepole pine stands affected by the mountain pine beetle. Ministry of Forests and Range, British Columbia. Available from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfp/mountain_pine_beetle/stewardship/report.pdf [accessed 13 January 2010].
6. Colorado State Forest Service. 2009. 2008 report: the health of Colorado's forests. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado. Available from http://csfs.colostate.edu/pdfs/894651_08FrstHlth_www.pdf [accessed 13 January 2010].
7. Diskin, M. 2010. Forest regeneration trajectories in mountain pine beetle-disturbed forests of Rocky Mountain National Park. M.Sc. thesis, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
8. Dordel, J., Feller, M.C., and Simard, S.W. 2008. Effects of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) infestations on forest stand structure in the southern Canadian Rocky Mountains. For. Ecol. Manage. 255(10): 3563-3570. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2008.02.018.
9. Griesbauer, H., and Green, S. 2006. Examining the utility of advance regeneration for reforestation and timber production in unsalvaged stands killed by the mountain pine beetle: controlling factors and management implications. B.C. J. Ecosyst. Manage. 7(2): 81-92. Available from http://www.forrex.org/publications/jem/ISS35/vol7_no2_art9.pdf [accessed 13 January 2010].
10. Hawkes, B., Taylor, S.W., Stockdale, C., Shore, T.L., Alfaro, R.I., Campbell, R., and Vera, P. 2003. Impact of mountain pine beetle on stand dynamics in British Columbia. In Mountain Pine Beetle Symposium: Challenges and Solutions, Kelowna, B.C., 30-31 October 2003. Edited by T.L. Shore, J.E. Brooks, and J.E. Stone. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Information Report BC-X-399, Victoria, British Columbia. pp. 177-199. Available from http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/MPB/hawkes_2004_impact.pdf [accessed 13 January 2010].
11. Heath, R., and Alfaro, R.I. 1990. Growth response in a Douglas-fir/lodgepole pine stand after thinning of lodgepole pine by the mountain pine beetle: a case study. J. Entomol. Soc. B.C. 87: 16-21.
12. Kaufmann, M.R., Aplet, G.H., Babler, M., Baker, W.L., Bentz, B., Harrington, M., Hawkes, B.C., Huckaby, L.S., Jenkins, M.J., Kashian, D.M., Keane, R.E., Kulakowski, D., McHugh, C., Negron, J., Popp, J., Romme, W.H., Schoennagel, T., Shepperd, W., Smith, F.W., Sutherland, E.K., Tinker, D., and Veblen, T.T. 2008. The status of our scientific understanding of lodgepole pine and mountain pine beetles - a focus on forest ecology and fire behavior. The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, Virginia, GFI Technical Report 2008-2. Available from http://csfs.colostate.edu/pages/documents/LPP_scientific-LS-www_000.pdf [accessed 13 January 2010].
13. Kruskal, J.B. 1964. Nonmetric multidimensional scaling: a numerical method. Psychometrika, 29(2): 115-129. doi:10.1007/BF02289694.
14. Lewis Murphy, T.E., Adams, D.L., and Ferguson, D.E. 1999. Response of advance lodgepole pine regeneration to overstory removal in eastern Idaho. For. Ecol. Manage. 120(1-3): 235-244. doi:10.1016/S0378-1127(98)00544-1.
15. Lotan, J., and Critchfield, W.B. 1990. Pinus contorta. In Silvics of North America: 1. Conifers. Edited by R.M. Burns and B.H. Honkala. USDA Forest Service, Agriculture Handbook 654, Washington, D.C.
16. Mather, P.M. 1976. Computational methods of multivariate analysis in physical geography. J. Wiley and Sons, London.
17. McCaughey, W., and Ferguson, D. 1988. Response of advance regeneration to release in the inland mountain west: a summary. In Future Forests of the Mountain West: A Stand Culture Symposium, 29 September - 3 October 1986. Edited by Wyman C. Schmidt. USDA For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-243. pp. 255-266.
18. McCune, B., and Grace, J.B. 2002. Analysis of ecological communities. MjM Software Design, Gleneden Beach, Oregon.
19. McCune, B., and Mefford, M.J. 2006. PC-ORD: multivariate analysis of ecological data. Version 5. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach, Oregon.
20. Mielke, P.W., Jr., and Berry, K.J. 2001. Permutation methods: a distance function approach. Springer Series in Statistics, Springer-Verlag, New York.
21. Moir, W.H. 1969. The lodgepole pine zone in Colorado. Am. Midl. Nat. 81(1): 87-98. doi:10.2307/2423653.
22. Nelson, K.N. 2009. The effect of mountain pine beetle caused mortality on subalpine forest stand and landscape structure in Rocky Mountain National Park, CO. M.Sc. thesis, Department of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.
23. Peet, R.K. 1981. Forest vegetation of the Colorado Front Range: composition and dynamics. Vegetatio, 45(1): 3-75. doi:10.1007/BF00240202.
24. Peet, R.K. 2000. Forests and meadows of the Rocky Mountains. In North American terrestrial vegetation. Edited by M.G. Barbour and W.D. Billins. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. pp. 75-121.
25. Rocky Mountain National Park. 2007. Rocky Mountain National Park GIS data. Rocky Mountain National Park, GIS Program, Estes Park, Colorado.
26. Roe, A.L., and Amman, G.D. 1970. The mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine forests. USDA For. Serv. Res. Pap. INT-71.
27. Romme, W.H., Knight, D.H., and Yavitt, J.B. 1986. Mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains: regulators of primary productivity? Am. Nat. 127(4): 484-494. doi:10.1086/284497.
28. Safranyik, L., and Caroll, A.L. 2006. The biology and epidemiology of the mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine forests. In The mountain pine beetle: a synthesis of biology, management, and impacts on lodgepole pine. Edited by L. Safranyik and B. Wilson. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, British Columbia. pp. 3-66.
29. Schoennagel, T., Veblen, T.T., and Romme, W.H. 2004. The interaction of fire, fuels, and climate across rocky mountain forests. Bioscience, 54(7): 661-676. doi:10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0661:TIOFFA]2.0.CO;2.
30. Sibold, J.S., Veblen, T.T., and Gonzalez, M.E. 2006. Spatial and temporal variation in historic fire regimes in subalpine forests across the Colorado Front Range in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. J. Biogeogr. 33(4): 631-647. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01404.x.
31. Sibold, J.S., Veblen, T.T., Chipko, K., Lawson, L., Mathis, E., and Scott, J. 2007. Influences of secondary disturbances on lodgepole pine stand development in Rocky Mountain National Park. Ecol. Appl. 17(6): 1638-1655. doi:10.1890/06-0907.1.
32. Taylor, S.W., Carroll, A.L., Alfaro, R.I., and Safranyik, L. 2006. Forest, climate and mountain pine beetle outbreak dynamics in western Canada. In The mountain pine beetle: a synthesis of biology, management, and impacts on lodgepole pine. Edited by L. Safranyik and B. Wilson. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, British Columbia. pp. 67-94.
33. Theobald, D.M., Stevens, D.L., Jr, White, D., Urquhart, N.S., Olsen, A.R., and Norman, J.B. 2007. Using GIS to generate spatially balanced random survey designs for natural resource applications. Environ. Manage. 40(1): 134-146. doi:10.1007/s00267-005-0199-x.
34. U.S. Forest Service. 1997. Operational goals, standards, and guidelines. In 1997 Revision of the Land and Resource Management Plan. USDA Forest Service, Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland. Available from www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fsm91_057935.pdf [accessed 13 January 2010].
35. Veblen, T.T., Hadley, K.S., Reid, M.S., and Rebertus, A.J. 1991. The response of subalpine forests to spruce beetle outbreak in Colorado. Ecology, 72(1): 213-231. doi:10.2307/1938916.
36. Western Regional Climate Center. 2010. Historical climate information [online]. Available from http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/CLIMATEDATA.html [accessed 13 January 2010].
37. Worrall, J.J., Egeland, L., Eager, T., Mask, R.A., Johnson, E.W., Kemp, P.A., and Shepperd, W.D. 2008. Rapid mortality of Populus tremuloides in southwestern Colorado, USA. For. Ecol. Manage. 255(3-4): 686-696. doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2007.09.071.
38. Wulder, M.A., Ortlepp, S.M., White, J.C., Nelson, T., and Coops, N. C. 2010. A provincial and regional assessment of the mountain pine beetle epidemic in British Columbia: 1999-2008. J. Environ. Inform. 15(1): 1-13. doi:10.3808/jei.201000161.