Breach of the northern Rocky Mountain geoclimatic barrier: Initiation of range expansion by the mountain pine beetle

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1112-1123

  de la Giroday, Honey Marie C ^a,b   Carroll, Allan L ^c   Aukema, Brian H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Coleoptera; Curculionidae; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Dispersal patterns; Forest insests; Landscape ecology; Long distance dispersal; Mountain pine beetle; Range expansion

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATIC REGION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; DISPERSAL; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PARSIMONY ANALYSIS; PERSISTENCE; POPULATION MODELING; RANGE EXPANSION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 84861203002     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2011.02673.x     Document Type: Article

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