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The Bark Beetles, Fuels, and Fire Bibliography

Bark beetle outbreaks have resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of conifers on approximately 30 million hectares of forested lands in western North America during the last decade. Many forests remain susceptible to bark beetle infestation and will continue to experience high levels of conifer mortality until suitable host trees are depleted, or natural factors cause populations to collapse. Stand conditions and drought, combined with warming temperatures, have contributed to the severity of these outbreaks, particularly in high-elevation forests.

Conventional wisdom suggests that large scale bark beetle outbreaks alter fuel complexes resulting in an increased potential for severe fires. Conversely, fires damage trees that may predispose them to bark beetle attack. In reality there is little specific quantified data supporting these assertions, and until recently, relationships between fire and western bark beetles in forests of North America have not been extensively studied. The magnitude of recent outbreaks and large wildfires has resulted in a flurry of research attempting to quantify bark beetle/fire/fuel interactions.

We hope and expect that our freely accessible, online bibliography may be of great benefit to any scholarly research. The bibliography searching can be conducted through titles, by author name, or by descriptive words. Where possible, full text of the documents are provided as PDF documents.

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1991 1991

Response of Subalpine Forests to Spruce Beetle Outbreak in Colorado, Thomas T. Veblen, Keith S. Hadley, Marion S. Reid, and Alan J. Rebertus; Ecology

1990 1990

Spruce Beetles and Fires in the Nineteenth-Century Subalpine Forests of Western Colorado USA, William L. Baker and Thomas T. Veblen; Arctic and Alpine Research

Relationship Between Fire and Bark Beetles Attack in Western North American Forests, Michael J. Jenkins; Proceedings of the First International Conference on Forest Fire Research

Emergence, Attack Densities, and Host Relationships for the Douglas-Fir Beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopkins) in Northern Colorado, E D. Lessard and J M. Schmid; Great Basin Naturalist

Early 19th Century Fire Decline Following Sheep Pasturing in a Navajo Ponderosa Pine Forest, M. Savage and T. W. Swetnam; Ecology

Woody Fuel Structure and Fire in Subalpine Fir Forests, Olympic National Park, Washington, K L. Taylor and R W. Fonda; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

1989 1989

Microclimate : An Alternative to Tree Vigor as a Basis for Mountain Pine Beetle Infestations, Dale L. Bartos and Gene D. Amman

Interactions Among Root Disease Pathogens and Bark Beetles in Coniferous Forests, Fields W. Cobb Jr.; Pages 142-148 in DJ Morrison (ed) Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Root and Butt Rots, Aug 9-16, 1988, Vernon BC. International Union of Forestry Research Organisation, VIctoria, Canada

The Role of Douglas-fir and Wood Borers in the Decomposition of and Nutrient Release from Douglas-fir Logs, R. L. Edmonds and A. Eglitis; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

The Role of Autoxidation of α-pinene in the Production of Pheromones of Dendroctonusponderosae (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), D. W.A. Hunt and J. H. Borden; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Fire Behavior, Fuel Consumption, and Forest-floor Changes Following Prescribed Understory Fires in Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer Forests, J. B. Kauffman and R. E. Martin; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Host Effects on the Phenology, Development, and Mortality of Field Populations of the mountain Pine Beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), David W. Langor; The Canadian Entomologist

The Ecological Concept of Disturbance and its Expression at Various Hierarchical Levels, S. T.A. Pickett, J. Kolasa, J. J. Armesto, and S. L. Collins; OIKOS

The Response of Understory Vegetation to Major Canopy Disturbance in the Subalpine Forests of Colorado, Marion S. Reid; University of Colorado, Department of Geography MS thesis, Boulder

Mountain Pine Beetle : Biology Overview, Lee Safrenyik; Proceedings: Symposium on the Management of Lodgepole Pine to Minimize Losses to the Mountain Pine Beetle

1988 1988

Lodgepole Pine Vigor, Regeneration, and Infestation by Mountain Pine Beetle Following Partial cutting on the Shoshone National Forest, Wyoming, Gene D. Amman, Gene D. Lessard, Lynn A. Rasmussen, and Curtis G. O'Neil

Susceptibility of Lodgepole Pine to Infestation by Mountain Pine Beetle Following Partial Cutting of Stands, Gene D. Amman, Mark D. McGregor, Richard F. Schmitz, and Robert D. Oakes; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Patterns of Community Dynamics in Colorado Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fire Forests, Gregory H. Aplet, Richard D. Laven, and Frederick W. Smith; Ecology

Douglas-Fir Beetle (Dendroctonus pseudotsugae Hopkins, Coleoptera : Scolytidae) Brood Production on Douglas-Fir Defoliated by Western Spruce Budworm (Choristoneura occidentalis Freeman, Lepidoptera : Tortricidae) in Logan Canyon, Utah, S E. Fredricks and M J. Jenkins; Great Basin Naturalist

Predicting Postfire Mortality of Seven Western Conifers, Kevin C. Ryan and Elizabeth D. Reinhardt; Canadian Journal of Forest Research

1987 1987

Ecology, Silviculture, and Management of the Engelmann Spruce - Subalpine Fir Type in the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains, Robert R. Alexander

Forest Fire Frequency and Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks in Western Montana, L. Anderson, C. E. Carlson, and R. H. Wakimoto; Forest Ecology and Management

Western Spruce Budworm, M. H. Brooks, J. J. Colbert, R. G. Mitchell, and R. W. Stark

Resistance of Conifers to Bark Beetle Attack : Searching for General Relationships, Erik Christiansen, Richard H. Warning, and Alan A. Berryman; Forest Ecology and Management

Parasites, Lightning, and the Vegetation Mosaic in Wilderness Landscapes, Dennis H. Knight