Wildfire provides refuge from local extinction but is an unlikely driver of outbreaks by mountain pine beetle

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 69-84

  Powell, Erinn N ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^a   Raffa, Kenneth F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Allee effects; Bark beetle; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Disturbance interactions; Fire; Forest ecosystems; Greater yellowstone ecosystem; Insect outbreaks; Pinus contorta; Plant insect interactions; Population dynamics; Thresholds

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORE; INJURY; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; LOCAL EXTINCTION; PEST OUTBREAK; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REFUGE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; WILDFIRE;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 82655161358     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0607.1     Document Type: Article

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