What Tree-Ring Reconstruction Tells Us about Conifer Defoliator Outbreaks

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 126-154

  Lynch, Ann M ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology, dating past forest insect disturbances; Dendrochronology, identification of outbreaks; Douglas fir and white fir, WSBW chronologies; Dynamics of forest insect outbreaks, long term data lack; Methodological considerations; Reconstructions of outbreak histories; Short term records and experimental results; Tree ring chronologies; Tree ring reconstruction, and conifer defoliator outbreaks; Two year cycle spruce budworm

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886527023     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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