What explains landscape patterns of tree mortality caused by bark beetle outbreaks in Greater Yellowstone?

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 556-567

  Simard, Martin ^a   Powell, Erinn N ^a   Raffa, Kenneth F ^a   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Douglas fir; Douglas fir beetle; Engelmann spruce; Insect outbreak; Landscape ecology; Lodgepole pine; Mountain pine beetle; Rocky Mountains; Spruce beetle; Whitebark pine

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; FOREST COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; REMOTE SENSING; TREE;

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

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PSEUDOTSUGAE; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; HEXAPODA; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84859424935     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00710.x     Document Type: Article

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