Predictors of bark beetle activity and scale-dependent spatial heterogeneity change during the course of an outbreak in a subalpine forest

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 97-109

  Nelson, Kellen N ^a,b   Rocca, Monique E ^a   Diskin, Matthew ^a   Aoki, Carissa F ^a   Romme, William H ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance; Landscape heterogeneity; Lodgepole pine; Mountain pine beetle; Rocky Mountain National Park; Stand complexity

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ENTOMOLOGY; FIELD SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MORTALITY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDICTION; SCALE EFFECT; SPATIAL VARIATION; STAND STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84895068447     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-013-9954-1     Document Type: Article

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