Cross-scale interactions among bark beetles, climate change, and wind disturbances: A landscape modeling approach

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 383-402

  Temperli, Christian ^a,b   Bugmann, Harald ^a   Elkin, Che ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Central Europe; Climate change; Disturbance interaction; European spruce bark beetle; Forest dynamics; Ips typographus; LandClim; Landscape model; Management strategy; Regime shift

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST FIRE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; TREE;

BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; BLACK FOREST; DAVOS; GERMANY; GRAUBUNDEN; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84882250866     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1503.1     Document Type: Article

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