Persistence of MODIS evapotranspiration impacts from mountain pine beetle outbreaks in lodgepole pine forests, south-central rocky mountains

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2015, Pages 78-91

  Vanderhoof, Melanie K ^a   Williams, Christopher A ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Disturbance; Evapotranspiration; MODIS; Mountain pine beetles; Water cycle

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; EVERGREEN FOREST; MODIS; MORTALITY; PERSISTENCE; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; POPULATION OUTBREAK; WATER RESOURCE;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84907990274     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.09.015     Document Type: Article

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