If a tree falls in the forest ... snagfall dynamics in western forests more than a decade after a severe beetle outbreak

Charles C. Rhoades

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If a tree falls in the forest ... snagfall dynamics in western forests more than a decade after a severe beetle outbreak

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Charles C. Rhoades

Year:

2021

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), April 2021. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.

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Abstract

A bark beetle outbreak killed 78 percent of overstory lodgepole pine on high-elevation study plots at the Fraser Experimental Forest in north-central Colorado. Of those snags, only 17 percent fell in the first decade after the peak of the outbreak.

Keywords

Science You Can Use, SYCU, bark beetle, lodgepole pine, outbreak, snags, snagfall

Citation

Rhoades, Chuck. 2021. If a tree falls in the forest ... snagfall dynamics in western forests more than a decade after a severe beetle outbreak. Science You Can Use (in 5 Minutes), April 2021. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.