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Response of mountain Picea abies forests to stand-replacing bark beetle outbreaks: Neighbourhood effects lead to self-replacement
| Authors: | Thorsten Zeppenfeld, Miroslav Svoboda, R. Justin DeRose, Marco Heurich, Jorg Muller, Pavla Cizkova, Martin Stary, Radek Bace, Daniel C. Donato |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Type: | Scientific Journal |
| Station: | Rocky Mountain Research Station |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12504 |
| Source: | Journal of Applied Ecology. 52: 1402-1411. |
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Abstract
Large, severe disturbances drive many forest ecosystems over the long term, but pose management uncertainties when human experience with them is limited. Recent continent-scale outbreaks of bark beetles across the temperate Northern Hemisphere have raised major concerns as to whether coniferous forests will regenerate back towards pre-outbreak condition and meet possible reforestation objectives. To date, however, analyses of post-outbreak regeneration across broad spatial and temporal scales have been rare, and entirely lacking for many regions.