Negative feedbacks on bark beetle outbreaks: Widespread and severe spruce beetle infestation restricts subsequent infestation

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Hart, Sarah J ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Mietkiewicz, Nathan ^b   Kulakowski, Dominik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CLIMATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FOREST; HABITAT; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFESTATION; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PLANT DISEASE; PLANT GROWTH; SPRUCE; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA ENGELMANNII; SCOLYTINAE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CLIMATE CHANGE; DROUGHTS; ECOSYSTEM; FORESTS; PICEA; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84930648695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127975     Document Type: Article

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