Prescribed fire and mechanical thinning effects on bark beetle caused tree mortality in a mid-elevation Sierran mixed-conifer forest

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 306, Issue , 2013, Pages 61-67

  Stark, Daniel T ^a   Wood, David L ^a   Storer, Andrew J ^b   Stephens, Scott L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; D. ponderosae; Dendroctonus brevicomis; Fire surrogates; Scolytus ventralis; Second order fire effects

Indexed keywords

BARK BEETLE; D. PONDEROSAE; DENDROCTONUS BREVICOMIS; FIRE EFFECT; FIRE SURROGATES; SCOLYTUS VENTRALIS;

FIRES;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; MIXED FOREST; MORALITY; PRESCRIBED BURNING; SHADE TOLERANCE; THINNING; UNDERSTORY;

INSECTS; MORTALITY; NEVADA; PINUS PONDEROSA; PRESCRIBED BURNING; THINNING; TREES;

CALIFORNIA; SIERRA NEVADA [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880412636     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2013.06.018     Document Type: Article

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