Climate change could alter the distribution of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Canada

Ecography

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 211-223

  Sambaraju, Kishan R ^a,b   Carroll, Allan L ^d   Zhu, Jun ^e,f   Stahl, Kerstin ^g   Moore, R Dan ^d   Aukema, Brian H ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FACILITATION; LANDSCAPE; LATITUDE; LOGISTICS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

UNITED STATES;

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

EID: 84863272271     PISSN: 09067590     EISSN: 16000587     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0587.2011.06847.x     Document Type: Article

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