Douglas-fir tussock moth- and Douglas-fir beetle-caused mortality in a ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forest in the Colorado Front Range, USA

Forests

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3131-3146

  Negrón, José F ^a   Lynch, Ann M ^b   Schaupp, Willis C ^c   Mercado, Javier E ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Defoliators; Dendroctonus pseudotsugae; Douglas fir beetle; Douglas fir tussock moth; Forest insects; Orgyia pseudotsugata

Indexed keywords

BARK BEETLE; DEFOLIATORS; DENDROCTONUS; DOUGLAS-FIR BEETLE; FOREST INSECTS; ORGYIA PSEUDOTSUGATA; TUSSOCK MOTH;

FORESTRY;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; CONIFEROUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; MORTALITY; MOTH; PEST OUTBREAK; STAND DYNAMICS;

INSECTS; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA;

COLORADO; FRONT RANGE; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN ISABEL NATIONAL FOREST; SOUTH PLATTE RIVER; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS PSEUDOTSUGAE; HEXAPODA; ORGYIA PSEUDOTSUGATA; PINUS PONDEROSA; PSEUDOTSUGA; PSEUDOTSUGA MENZIESII; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84921451262     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f5123131     Document Type: Article

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