Stand-replacing fires reduce susceptibility of lodgepole pine to mountain pine beetle outbreaks in Colorado

Journal of Biogeography

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2052-2060

  Kulakowski, Dominik ^a   Jarvis, Daniel ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^b   Smith, Jeremy ^b  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Colorado; Curculionidae; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Disturbance interactions; Forest disturbance; Pinus contorta; Scolytinae; Subalpine forests; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DENDROECOLOGY; DISTURBANCE; MORTALITY; PEST OUTBREAK; RECONSTRUCTION; STAND DYNAMICS; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84867739912     PISSN: 03050270     EISSN: 13652699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02748.x     Document Type: Article

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