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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2013
Influence of Recent Bark Beetle Outbreak on Fire Severity and Post-Fire Tree Regeneration in Montane Douglas-fir Forests, Brian J. Harvey, Daniel C. Donato, William H. Romme, and Monica G. Turner; Ecological Society of America
Changes in transpiration and foliage growth in lodgepole pine trees following mountain pine beetle attack and mechanical girdling, Robert M. Hubbard, Charles C. Rhoades, Kelly Elder, and Jose Negron; Forest Ecology and Management
Interactions Among the Mountain Pine Beetle, Fires, and Fuels, Michael J. Jenkins, Justin B. Runyon, Christopher J. Fettig, Wesley G. Page, and Barbara J. Bentz; Forest Sciene
Low-Severity Fires Increase Susceptibility of Lodgepole Pine to Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in Colorado, Dominik Kulalowski and Daniel Jarvis; Forest Ecology and Management
Conservation Value of Forests Attacked by Bark Beetles: Highest Number of Indicator Species is Found in Early Successional Stages, Lukas W. Lehnert, Claus Bässler, Roland Brandl, Philip J. Burton, and Jörg Müller; Journal for Nature Conservation
Modeling Wind Fields and Fire Propagation Following Bark Beetle Outbreaks in Spatially-Heterogeneous Pinyon-Juniper Woodland Fuel Complexes, Rodman R. Linn, Carolyn H. Sieg, Chad M. Hoffman, Judith L. WInterkamp, and Joel D. McMillin; Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
Wildfire’s Resistance to Control in Mountain Pine Beetle-Attacked Lodgepole Pine Forests, Wesley G. Page, Martin E. Alexander, and Michael J. Jenkins; THe Forestry Chronicle
Foliar Moisture Content Variations in Lodgepole Pine Over the Diurnal Cycle During the Red Stage of Mountain Pine Beetle Attack, Wesley G. Page, Michael J. Jenkins, and Martin E. Alexander; Environmental Modelling & Software
How Will Aspen Respond to Mountain Pine Beetle? A Review of Literature and Discussion of Knowledge Gaps, Kristen A. Pelz and Frederick W. Smith; Forest Ecology and Management
Prescribed Fire and Mechanical Thinning Effects on Bark Beetle Caused Tree Mortality in a Mid-elevation Sierran Mixed-conifer Forest, Daniel T. Starka, David L. Wooda, Andrew J. Storerb, and Scott L. Stephensa; Forest Ecology and Management
Cross-scale Interactions Among Bark Beetles, Climate Change, and Wind Disturbances: a Landscape Modeling Approach, Christian Temperli, Harald Bugmann, and Ché Elkin; Ecological Monographs
2012
Effect of Bark Beetle Infestation on Secondary Organic Aerosol Precursor Emissions, Hardik Amin, P. Tyson Atkins, Rachel S. Russo, Aaron W. Brown, Barkley Sive, A. Gannet Hallar, and Kara E. Huff Hartz; Environmental Science & Technology
Bark Beetle Outbreaks, Wildfires and Defensible space : How Much Area do we Need to Treat to Protect Homes and Communities?, Glen Aronson and Dominik Kulakowski; International Journal of Wildland Fire
The Effects of Bark Beetle Outbreaks on Forest Development, Fuel Loads and Potential Fire Behavior in Salvage Logged and Untreated Lodgepole Pine Forests, B J. Collins, C C. Rhoades, M A. Battaglia, and R M. Hubbard; Forest Ecology and Management
Cascading Impacts of Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality on Coupled Biogeophysical and Biogeochemical Processes, S. L. Edburg, J. A. Hicke, P. D. Brooks, E. G. Pendall, B. E. Ewars, U. Norton, D. Gochis, E. D. Guttman, and A. J.H. Meddens; Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Mixed-severity Fire Regimes in Dry Forests of Southern Interior British Columbia, Canada, E. K. Heyerdahl, K. Lertzman, and C. M. Wong; Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Review: Effects of Bark Beetle-caused Mortality on Wildfire, J. A. Hicke, M. C. Johnson, J. L. Hayes, and H. K. Preisler; Forest Ecology and Management
Effects of Bark Beetle-Caused Tree Mortality on Wildfire, Jeffrey A. Hicke, Morris C. Johnson, Jane L. Hayes, and Haiganoush K. Preisler; Forest Ecology and Management
Numerical Simulation of Crown Fire Hazard Immediately after Bark Beetle-Caused Mortality in Lodgepole Pine Forests, Chad Hoffman, Penelope Morgan, William Mell, Russell Parsons, Eva K. Strand, and Stephen Cook; Forest Science
Fuel Loadings 5 Years After a Bark Beetle Outbreak in South-western USA Ponderosa Pine Forests, Chad M. Hoffman, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Joel D. McMillin, and Peter Z. Fule; International Journal of Wildland Fire
Fuels and Fire Behavior Dynamics in Bark Beetle-attacked forests in Western North America and Implications for Fire Management, Michael J. Jenkins, Wesley G. Page, Elizabeth G. Hebertson, and Martin E. Alexander; Forest Ecology and Management
Relationships Between Moisture, Chemistry, and ignition of Pinus contorta Needles During the Early Stages of Mountain Pine Beetle Attack, W. Matt Jolly, Russell A. Parsons, Ann M. Hadlow, Greg M. Cohn, Sara S. McAllister, John B. Popp, Robert M. Hubbard, and Jose F. Negron; Forest Ecology and Management
Historical Fire Regime and Forest Variability on Two Eastern Great Basin Fire-Sheds (USA), Stanley G. Kitchen; Forest Ecology and Management
Stand Replacing Fires Reduce Susceptibility of Lodgepole Pine to Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreaks in Colorado, D. Kulakowski, D. Jarvis, T. T. Veblen, and J. Smith; Journal of Biogeography
Spatiotemporal Patterns of Observed Bark Beetle-caused tree mortality in British Columbia and the Western United States, A. J.H. Meddens, J. A. Hicke, and C. A. Ferguson; Ecological Applications