Geographically variable response of Dendroctonus ponderosae to winter warming in the western United States

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1075-1093

  Weed, Aaron S ^a   Bentz, Barbara J ^b   Ayres, Matthew P ^a   Holmes, Thomas P ^c  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Climate change; Cold tolerance; Demography; Mountain pine beetle; Pinus; Process based model

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; AIR TEMPERATURE; BEETLE; COLD TOLERANCE; ECOREGION; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION OUTBREAK; SURVEY METHOD; WARMING; WINTER;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84930271297     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-015-0170-z     Document Type: Article

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