Recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks, wildfire severity, and postfire tree regeneration in the US Northern Rockies

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 42, 2014, Pages 15120-15125

  Harvey, Brian J ^a   Donato, Daniel C ^b   Turner, Monica G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Washington State Department of Natural Resources   (United States)

Author keywords

Conifer forest; Disturbance interactions; Fire ecology; Forest resilience; Serotiny

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLE; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRE; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; SEEDLING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BEETLES; CLIMATE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FIRES; FORESTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PINUS; SEEDLINGS; TREES; UNITED STATES; WEATHER;

EID: 84908042423     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1411346111     Document Type: Article

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