Spatiotemporal dynamics of recent mountain pine beetle and western spruce budworm outbreaks across the Pacific Northwest Region, USA

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 339, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 71-86

  Meigs, Garrett W ^a   Kennedy, Robert E ^b   Gray, Andrew N ^c   Gregory, Matthew J ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetle; Change detection; Defoliator; Forest disturbance; Landsat time series; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

MAPS; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; SURVEYS; TIME SERIES;

BARK BEETLE; CHANGE DETECTION; DEFOLIATOR; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; TREE MORTALITY;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL SURVEY; BEETLE; BIOACTIVITY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DEFOLIATION; ECOREGION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; MAP; MORTALITY; PEST OUTBREAK; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; INSECTS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MORTALITY; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

CHORISTONEURA; CHORISTONEURA OCCIDENTALIS; COLEOPTERA; CONIFEROPHYTA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84930214097     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.11.030     Document Type: Article

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