Comparing modern and presettlement forest dynamics of a subboreal wilderness: Does spruce budworm enhance fire risk?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1278-1296

  Sturtevant, Brian R ^a   Miranda, Brian R ^a   Shinneman, Douglas J ^b   Gustafson, Eric J ^a   Wolter, Peter T ^c  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Abies balsamea; Disturbance ecology; Insect fire interactions; LANDIS II; Laurentian mixed forest; Minnesota; Spruce budworm; Succession

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST FIRE; HABITAT RESTORATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; INSECT; MIXED FOREST; PEST OUTBREAK; SETTLEMENT PATTERN; SHADE TOLERANCE; SUCCESSION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRE; LARVA; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME; TREE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FIRES; LARVA; MINNESOTA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

CANADA; LAURENTIAN MOUNTAINS; MINNESOTA; QUEBEC [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

ABIES BALSAMEA; BETULA PAPYRIFERA; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA; LARIX LARICINA; PICEA MARIANA; PINUS STROBUS; POPULUS; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 84862982186     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0590.1     Document Type: Article

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