Persisting bark beetle outbreak indicates the unsustainability of secondary Norway spruce forests: Case study from Central Europe

Annals of Forest Science

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 481-491

  Hlásny, Tomáš ^a,b   Turčáni, Marek ^b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Declining spruce forests; Forest management; Geostatistics; Ips typographus dispersal; Regression modelling

Indexed keywords

BARK; BEETLE; CLEARCUTTING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DISPERSAL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GEOSTATISTICS; PERSISTENCE; PEST DAMAGE; PEST OUTBREAK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SECONDARY FOREST; SUSTAINABILITY;

CENTRAL EUROPE;

COLEOPTERA; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84878717307     PISSN: 12864560     EISSN: 1297966X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13595-013-0279-7     Document Type: Article

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