Relative importance of climate and mountain pine beetle outbreaks on the occurrence of large wildfires in the western USA

Extensive outbreaks of bark beetles have killed trees across millions of hectares of forests and woodlands in western North America. These outbreaks have led to spirited scientific, public, and policy debates about consequential increases in fire risk, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI...

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Published in:	Ecological applications Vol. 26; no. 8; pp. 2525 - 2537
Main Authors:	Mietkiewicz, Nathan, Kulakowski, Dominik
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Ecological Society of America 01.12.2016
Subjects:	Animals bark beetles climate change climatic factors Coleoptera coniferous forests Dendroctonus ponderosae disturbance interactions drought ecological disturbance Forests fuels issues and policy linked disturbances lodgepole pine North America Pinus Pinus contorta Pinus contorta var. latifolia Population Dynamics risk subalpine forests temperature trees water content Western United States Wildfires Wildland–urban interface woodlands Western United States ecological disturbance drought Pinus contorta Dendroctonus ponderosae Wildland-urban interface disturbance interactions linked disturbances subalpine forests lodgepole pine climate change
ISSN:	1051-0761, 1939-5582
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