Interactions among spruce beetle disturbance, climate change and forest dynamics captured by a forest landscape model

Ecosphere

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2015, Pages

  Temperli, Christian ^a,d   Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Hart, Sarah J ^a   Kulakowski, Dominik ^b   Tepley, Alan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroctonus rufipennis; Forest dynamics; Landscape model LandClim; Northwestern Colorado; Picea engelmannii

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948954408     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/ES15-00394.1     Document Type: Article

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