Post-disaster forest management and bark beetle outbreak in tatra national park, slovakia

Mountain Research and Development

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 326-335

  Nikolov, Christo ^a   Konôpka, Bohdan ^a,b   Kajba, Matúš ^a   Galko, Juraj ^a   Kunca, Andrej ^a   Janský, Libor ^c  

^a FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^b CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^c Physics and Informatics   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Aerial photographs; Bark beetle; Forest management; GIS; Ips typographus; Slovakia; Windthrow

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; DOMINANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; PEST DAMAGE; PEST OUTBREAK; SITE INVESTIGATION;

SLOVAKIA; TATRAS NATIONAL PARK;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; PICEA ABIES; PICEA ENGELMANNII; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84917682570     PISSN: 02764741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-13-00017.1     Document Type: Article

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