Alternate attractors in the population dynamics of a tree-killing bark beetle

Population Ecology

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 95-106

  Martinson, Sharon J ^e   Ylioja, Tiina ^a   Sullivan, Brian T ^b   Billings, Ronald F ^c   Ayres, Matthew P ^d  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Texas Forest Service   (United States)

^d Dartmouth College   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternate stable states; Dendroctonus; Multiple equilibria; Pinus; Regime shift; Shared predators

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; NATURAL ENEMY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATOR; THRESHOLD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84871644888     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-012-0357-y     Document Type: Article

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