An innovative aerial assessment of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem mountain pine beetle-caused whitebark pine mortality

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 421-437

  MacFarlane, William W ^a   Logan, Jesse A ^b   Kern, Wilson R ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c GeoGraphics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial survey method; Climate change impacts; Cronartium ribicola; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Geographic information system, GIS; Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem; Mountain pine beetle; Pest monitoring; Pinus albicaulis; Rapid assessment system; White pine bluster rust; Whitebark pine

Indexed keywords

AERIAL SURVEY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUNGAL DISEASE; GIS; INNOVATION; KEYSTONE SPECIES; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; MOUNTAIN REGION; PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION DECLINE; RANGE SIZE; REFUGIUM;

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; UNITED STATES;

AIRCRAFT; ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; IDAHO; MONTANA; PHOTOGRAPHY; PINUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WYOMING;

GREATER YELLOWSTONE ECOSYSTEM; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 84875830321     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-1982.1     Document Type: Article

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