Thirty year change in lodgepole and lodgepole/mixed conifer forest structure following 1980s mountain pine beetle outbreak in western Colorado, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 280, Issue , 2012, Pages 93-102

  Pelz, Kristen A ^a   Smith, Frederick W ^a  

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

Author keywords

Advance regeneration; Bark beetles; Forest disturbance; Lodgepole pine; Mountain pine beetle; Subalpine fir

Indexed keywords

ADVANCE REGENERATION; BARK BEETLE; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LODGEPOLE PINE; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; SUB-ALPINE FIR;

ECOLOGY; FUELS; RECOVERY;

REFORESTATION;

ABUNDANCE; BASAL AREA; BEETLE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FIRE BEHAVIOR; FOREST FIRE; MIXED FOREST; MORTALITY; OVERSTORY; PEST OUTBREAK; REGENERATION; STAND DYNAMICS; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84863470003     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.05.032     Document Type: Article

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