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.
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2010
Foliar Moisture Content Input in the Canadian Forest Fire Behavior Prediction System for Areas Outside of Canada, M. E. Alexander; VI International Conference on Forest Fire Research
Climate Change and Bark Beetles of the Western United States and Canada: Direct and Indirect Effects, Barbara J. Bentz, Jacques Régnière, Matthew Hansen, Jane L. Hayes, Jefferey A. Hicke, Rick G. Kelsey, Jose F. Negron, and Steven J. Seybold; BioScience
Disturbance from Southern Pine Beetle, Suppression, and Wildfire Affects Vegetation Composition In Central Louisiana: A Case Study, T W. Coleman, Alton Martin Jr, J R. Meeker, S R. Clarke, and L K. Rieske; USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, General Technical Report SRS-129
Assessing Crown Fire Potential in Coniferous Forests of Western North America: A Critique of Current Approaches and Recent Simulation Studies, Miguel G. Cruz and Martin E. Alexander; International Journal of Wildland Fire
Effects of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments on Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality in the Southern Cascades, California, Christopher Fettig, Robert Borys, and Christopher Dabney; Forest Science
Potential Fire Behavior in Spruce Beetle-Induced Tree Mortality in Intermountain Spruce-Fir Forests, Carl A. Jorgensen and Michael J. Jenkins; Unpublished
Fuel Complex Alterations Associated with Spruce Beetle-Induced Tree Mortality in Intermountain Spruce-Fir Forests, USA, Carl Arik Jorgensen and Michael James Jenkins; Forest Science
Whitebark Pine Vulnerability to Climate-Driven Mountain Pine Beetle Disturbance in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, J. A. Logan, W. W. Mcfarlane, and L. Willcox; Ecological Applications
2009
Influence of Fire and Mountain Pine Beetle on the Dynamics of Lodgepole Pine Stands in British Columbia, Canada, Jodi N. Axelson, Rene I. Alfaro, and Brad C. Hawkes; Forest Ecology and Management
Additive and Synergistic Integration of Multimodal cues of both hosts and non-hosts During Host Selection by Woodboring Insects, S. A. Campbell and J. H. Borden; Oikos
Wildfire and Spruce Beetle Outbreak: Simulation of Interacting Disturbances in the Central Rocky Mountains, Justin DeRose and James N. Long; Ecoscience
Mountain Pine Beetle, Ken Gibson, Sandy Kegley, and Barbara Bentz; Forest Insect and Disease Leaflet
Fire Intensity, Fire Severity and Burn Severity: a Brief Review, J. E. Keeley; International Journal of Wildland Fire
Stand Characteristics and Downed Woody Debris Accumulations Associated with a Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) Outbreak in Colorado, Jennifer G. Klutsch, Jose F. Negron, Sheryl L. Costello, Charles C. Rhoades, Daniel R. West, John Popp, and Rick Caissie; Forest Ecology and Management
Variability in Fire Regimes of High-Elevation Whitebark Pine Communities, Western Montana, USA, Evan R. Larson, Saskia L. Van De Gevel, and Henri D. Grissino-Mayer; Ecoscience
Climate and Wildfire Area Burned in Western U.S. Ecoprovinces, 1916-2003, J. S. Littell, D. McKenzie, D. L. Peterson, and A. L. Westerling; Ecological Applications
Risk of Dispersal in Western Spruce Budworm, Vincent G. Nealis and Jacques Régnière; Agricultural and Forest Entomology
Bark Beetle-caused Mortality in a Drought-affected Ponderosa Pine Landscape in Arizona, USA, J. F. Negrón, J. D. McMillin, J. D. Anhold, and D. Coulson; Forest Ecology and Management
Response of Bark Beetles and Their Natural Enemies to Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments in Mixed-conifer Forests in Western Montana, Diana L. Six and Kjerstin Skov; Forest Ecology and Management
Delayed Conifer Mortality After Fuel Reduction Treatments: Interactive Effects of Fuel, Fire Intensity, and Bark Beetles, Andrew Youngblood, James B. Grace, James B. Grace, James B. Grace, and James D. McIver; Ecological Applications
2008
Prescribed Fire Effects on Bark Beetle Activity and Tree Mortality in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests, C. R. Breece, T. E. Kolb, B. G. Dickson, J. D. McMillin, and K. M. Clancy; Forest Ecology and Management
Effects of Prescribed Fire and Other Plant Community Restoration Treatments on Tree Mortality, Bark Beetles, and Other Saproxylic Coleoptera of Longleaf Pine, Pinus palustris Mill., on the Coastal Plain of Alabama, Joshua W. Campbell, James L. Hanula, and Kenneth W. Outcalt; Forest Ecology and Management
Developing Fire Behavior Fuel Models for the Wildland–Urban Interface in Anchorage, Alaska, Daniel Cheyette, T. Scott Rupp, and Sue Rodman; Western Journal of Applied Forestry
Climate Factors Associated with Historic Spruce Beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Outbreaks in Utah and Colorado, Elizabeth G. Hebertson and Michael J. Jenkins; Environmental Entomology
Bark Beetles, Fuels, Fires and Implications for Forest Management in the Intermountain West, Michael J. Jenkins, Elizabeth Hebertson, Wesley Page, and C. Arik Jorgensen; Forest Ecology and Management