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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.

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Interactions Between Fire and Spruce Beetles in a Subalpine Rocky Mountain Forest Landscape, Peter Bebi, Dominik Kulakowski, and Thomas T. Veblen; Ecology

Effect of Climate Change on Range Expansion by the Mountain Pine Beetle in British Columbia, Allan L. Carroll, Steve W. Taylor, Jacques Regniere, and Les Safranyik; Pages 223-232 in T.L Shore et al. (eds) Mountain Pine Beetle Symposium: Challenges and Solutions, Oct. 30-31, 2003. Kelowna BC. Natural Resources Canada, Infromation Report BC-X-399, Victoria

Assessing Canopy Fuel Stratum Characteristics in Crown Fire Prone Fuel Types of Western North America, M. G. Cruz, M. E. Alexander, and R. H. Wakimoto; International Journal of Wildland Fire

Vegetation Dynamics Under Fire Exclusion and Logging in a Rocky Mountain Watershed, 1856 -1996, Alisa L. Gallant, Andrew J. Hansen, John S. Councilman, Duane K. Monte, and David W. Betz; Ecological Applications

Utah Forest Health Report : A Baseline Assessment 1999 - 2001, Colleen Keyes, Paul Rogers, Leon LaMadeleine, Vick Applegate, and Dave Atkins; Utah Forest Health Report : A Baseline Assessment 1999 - 2001

Effects of Fire and Spruce Beetle Outbreak Legacies on the Disturbance Regime of a Subalpine Forest in Colorado, Dominik Kulakowski, Thomas T. Veblen, and Peter Bebi; Journal of Biogeography

Effects of Douglas-fir Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) Infestations on Forest Overstory and Understory Conditions in Western Wyoming, J. D. McMillin and K. K. Allen; Western North American Naturalist

Tree-Ring Reconstruction of Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks in the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, U.S.A., Daniel E. Ryerson, Thomas W. Swetnam, and Ann M. Lynch; Canadian Jorunal of Forest Research

Influence of Fire Interval and Serotiny on Postfire Lodgepole Pine Density in Yellowstone National Park, Tania Schoennagel, Monica G. Turner, and William H. Romme; Ecology

Effects of Crown Scorch on Ponderosa Pine Resistance to Bark Beetles in Northern Arizona, Kimberly F. Wallin, Thomas E. Kolb, Kjerstin R. Skov, and Michael R. Wagner; Environmental Entomology

2002 2002

Ecological Restoration of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems: A Broad Perspective, C. D. Allen, M. Savage, D. A. Falk, K. F. Suckling, T. W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P. B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J. T. Klingel; Ecological Applications

Cascading Effects of Fire Exclusion in Rocky Mountain Ecosystems : A Literature Review, Robert E. Keane, Kevin C. Ryan, Tom T. Veblen, Craig D. Allen, Jesse Logan, and Brad Hawkes

Influences of Fire History and Topography on the Pattern of a Severe Wind Blowdown in a Colorado Subalpine Forest, D. Kulakowski and T. T. Veblen; Journal of Ecology

Pine Engraver (Ips pini) Colonization of Logging Residues Created Using Alternative Slash Management Systems in Western Montana, Diana L. Six, Mark Vander Meer, Thomas H. DeLuca, and Peter Kolb; Western Journal of Applied Forestry

Sampling Coarse Woody Debris for Multiple Attributes in Extensive Resource Inventories, K. L. Waddell; Ecological Indicators

Climate Change and the Outbreak Ranges of Two North American Bark Beetles, David W. Williams and Andrew M. Liebhold; Agricultural and Forest Entomology

2001 2001

Mechanisms of Douglas-fir Resistance to Western Spruce Budworm Defoliation: Bud Burst Phenology, Photosynthetic Compensation and Growth Rate, Z. Chen, T. E. Kolb, and K. M. Clancy; Tree Physiology

Climate Change and Forest Disturbances, V. H. Dale, L. A. Joyce, S. McNulty, R. P. Neilson, M. P. Ayres, M. D. Flannigan, P. J. Hanson, L. C. Irland, A. E. Lugo, C. J. Peterson, D. Simberloff, F. J. Swanson, B. J. Stocks, and B. M. Wotton; BioScience

Spruce Beetle (Dendroctonus rufipennis) Outbreak in Engelmann Spruce (Picea engelmannil) in Central Utah, 1986-1998, Alan D. Dymerski, John A. Anhold, and Allen S. Munson; Western North American Naturalist

Thinning of Mature Lodgepole Pine Stands Increases Scolytid Bark Beetle Abundance and Diversity, Trevor D. Hindmarch and Mary L. Reid; Canadian Jorunal of Forest Research

Wildfire Regime in the Boreal Forest and the Idea of Suppression and Fuel Buildup, E A. Johnson, K Miyanishi, and SRJ Bridge; Conservation Biology

Ghost Forests, Global Warming, and the Mountain Pine Beetle (Coleoptera : Scolytidae), Jesse A. Logan and James A. Powell; American Entomologist

Postfire Survival in South Florida Slash Pine: Interacting Effects of Fire Intensity, Fire Season, Vegetation, Burn Size, and Bark Beetles, Eric S. Menges and Mark A. Deyrup; International Journal of Wildland Fire

Mapping Fire Regimes Across Time and Space: Understanding Coarse and Fine-scale Fire Patterns, P. Morgan, C. C. Hardy, T. W. Swetnam, M. G. Rollins, and D. G. Long; International Journal of Wildland Fire

Within-Stand Spatial Distribution of Tree Mortality Caused by the Douglas-fir Beetle (Coleoptera: Scolytidae)., J. F. Negrón, J. A. Anhold, and A. S. Munson; Environmental Entomolgy