Area burned in the western United States is unaffected by recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks

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

Volumn 112, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 4375-4380

  Hart, Sarah J ^a   Schoennagel, Tania ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Chapman, Teresa B ^a   Franklin, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetle; Dendrocotnus ponderosae; Disturbance interactions; Lodgepole pine; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; DROUGHT; FIRE; FLAMMABILITY; FOREST; INFESTATION; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; NONHUMAN; PINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DROUGHTS; FIRES; FORESTS; GEOGRAPHY; PINUS; TEMPERATURE; TREES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929493031     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1424037112     Document Type: Article

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