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Factors governing outbreak dynamics in a forest intensively managed for mountain pine beetle
Download2020-05-05
Mélodie Kunegel-Lion, MarkA. Lewis
Mountain pine beetle (MPB) outbreaks have caused major economic losses and ecological consequences in North American pine forests. Ecological and environmental factors impacting MPB life-history and stands susceptibility can help with the detection of MPB infested trees and thereby, improve...
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Fall 2019
Surface mining in the Athabasca Oil Sands region (AOSR) of Alberta, Canada, has led to the removal of over 760 km2 of boreal forest. Successful reclamation of these areas must return them to an equivalent capability boreal forest community. Clearwater overburden is a saline byproduct of surface...
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Fall 2020
Fire and insect outbreaks are the two leading natural disturbance factors affecting Canadian forests. Over the last 20 years Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonous ponderosae Hopkins) has killed more than 50 percent of western Canada’s merchantable lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests and spread...