Pre-outbreak forest conditions mediate the effects of spruce beetle outbreaks on fuels in subalpine forests of Colorado

Over the past 30 years, forest disturbances have increased in size, intensity, and frequency globally, an d are predicted to continue increasing due to climate change, potentially relaxing the constraints of vegetation properties on disturbance regimes. However, the consequences of the potentially d...

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Published in:	Ecological applications Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 457 - 472
Main Authors:	Mietkiewicz, Nathan, Kulakowski, Dominik, Veblen, Thomas T.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States UNKNOWN 01.03.2018 Ecological Society of America
Subjects:	Animals Bark bark beetles Beetles Bulk density Canopies canopy chronosequences Climate change Coleoptera Colorado conifer forests Dendroctonus rufipennis Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby Developmental stages disturbance interactions disturbance legacies Disturbances Evergreen trees Fires Foliage Forests fuel heterogeneity fuel loading Fuels fuels (fire ecology) Global warming Herbivores Heterogeneity leaves linked disturbances natural disturbances Outbreaks Pest outbreaks Picea engelmannii Risk reduction Rocky Mountains, USA Spatial heterogeneity spatial variation stand age subalpine forests Trees Vegetation western U.S. forests Colorado conifer forests Rocky Mountains, USA Dendroctonus rufipennis Kirby disturbance interactions disturbance legacies linked disturbances natural disturbances western U.S. forests Picea engelmannii fuel heterogeneity
ISSN:	1051-0761, 1939-5582
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