Open AccessMountain Pine Beetle Infestation: Cycling and Succession in Lodgepole Pine Forest
Author(s) -
William H. Romme,
Joseph B. Yavitt,
Dennis H. Knight,
J. Fedders
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
annual report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2693-2407
pISSN - 2693-2385
DOI - 10.13001/uwnpsrc.1983.2399
Subject(s) - mountain pine beetle , pinus contorta , dendroctonus , national park , bark beetle , ecological succession , snag , geography , outbreak , abies lasiocarpa , ecology , forestry , bark (sound) , habitat , archaeology , biology , virology
A research project was initiated in 1980 to study the effects of outbreaks of the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) on lodgepole pine forest (Pinus contorta spp. latifolia) in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas. This native bark beetle recently has killed millions of trees over thousands of square kilometers in the central and northern Rocky Mountains. Major outbreaks first occurred in Grand Teton National Park in the 1950's and in Yellowstone National Park in the 1960's. The outbreak in Yellowstone Park is still spreading.