Fine-scale spruce mortality dynamics driven by bark beetle disturbance in Babia Góra National Park, Poland

European Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 507-517

  Sproull, Gregory J ^a,b   Adamus, Michał ^b   Szewczyk, Janusz ^b   Kersten, Gordon ^a   Szwagrzyk, Jerzy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Boosted regression trees; Disturbance; Ips typographus; Outbreak; Picea abies; Stand complexity

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMPLEXITY; DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN TREE; MORTALITY; PEST OUTBREAK; STAND STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT;

BABIA GORA NATIONAL PARK; POLAND [CENTRAL EUROPE];

COLEOPTERA; IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84961221248     PISSN: 16124669     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10342-016-0949-8     Document Type: Article

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