Fire severity unaffected by spruce beetle outbreak in spruce-fir forests in southwestern Colorado

Ecological Applications

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 700-711

  Andrus, Robert A ^a   Veblen, Thomas T ^a   Harvey, Brian J ^b   Hart, Sarah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendroctonus rufipennis; Disturbance interactions; Fire ecology; Rocky Mountains; San Juan Mountains; Subalpine zone; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; EVERGREEN TREE; FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PEST SPECIES; POLICY MAKING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT; TOPOGRAPHY; WILDFIRE;

COLORADO; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES LASIOCARPA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; DENDROCTONUS RUFIPENNIS; PICEA; PICEA ENGELMANNII; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

ABIES; ANIMAL; BEETLE; COLORADO; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRE; FOREST; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPRUCE; SUNLIGHT;

ABIES; ANIMALS; BEETLES; COLORADO; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; FORESTS; PICEA; POPULATION DENSITY; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 84964861037     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-1121/suppinfo     Document Type: Article

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