Development and parametrization of a model forbark beetle disturbance in lodgepole forest
Document Type
Contribution to Book
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Plant Disturbance Ecology
Editor
K. Miyanishi and E. Johnson
Publisher
Academic Press
Publication Date
2007
First Page
527
Last Page
553
Abstract
Native forest insects are the greatest forces of change in forest ecosystems of North America. In aggregate, insect disturbances affect an area that is almost 45 times as a great as that affected by the fire, resulting in an economic impact nearly five times as great (Dale et all., 2001). Of these natural agents of ecosystem disturbance and change, the bark beetles are the most obvious in their impact, and of these, the mountain pine beetles (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins has the greatest economic importance in the forest of western North America (Samman and Logan, 2000). The primary reason for this impact is that the mountain pine beetle is one of a handful of bark beetles that are true predators in that they must kill their host to successfully reproduce, and they often do so in truly spectacular numbers.
Recommended Citation
Heavilin, J., J.A. Powell and J.A. Logan. 2007. “Development and parametrization of a model for bark beetle disturbance in lodgepole forest.” pages 527-553 IN: K. Miyanishi and E. Johnson (eds), Plant Disturbance Ecology, Academic Press, NY.
