The influence of stand and landscape characteristics on forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) defoliation dynamics: The case of the 1999-2002 outbreak in northwestern Quebec

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1827-1836

  Charbonneau, Daniel ^a,c   Lorenzetti, François ^b   Doyon, Frédérik ^b   Mauffette, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITIONAL HETEROGENEITY; CONTEXTUAL VARIABLES; DIFFERENT SCALE; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; FOREST COMPOSITIONS; FOREST INSECTS; FOREST STAND; HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES; LANDSCAPE CHARACTERISTIC; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; PREDICTIVE MODELS; TREE GROWTH; TREE MORTALITY; TREMBLING ASPEN;

DYNAMICS;

FORESTRY;

CATERPILLAR; DEFOLIATION; DICOTYLEDON; MORTALITY; MOTH; PERSISTENCE; PEST OUTBREAK; STAND DYNAMICS;

DEFOLIATION; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; GROWTH; INSECTS; POPULUS; TREES;

CANADA; QUEBEC [CANADA];

HEXAPODA; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

EID: 84868653976     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x2012-126     Document Type: Article

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