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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 1980
Interactions between fire, fungi, bark beetles and lodgepole pines growing on the pumice plateau of central Oregon are described. Mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) outbreaks occur mainly in forests that are 80–150 years old with a mean diameter of about 25 cm and weakened by a fungus, Phaeolus schweinitzii. The outbreak subsides after most of the large diameter trees are killed. The dead trees fuel subsequent fires which return nutrients to the soil, and a new age class begins. The surviving fire scarred trees are prone to infection by the slow fungal disease and about 100 years later these trees are then susceptible to bark beetle attack.
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Citation: Geiszler, D. R., R. I. Gara, C. H. Driver, V. F. Gallucci, and R. E. Martin. 1980. Fire, fungi, and beetle influences on a lodgepole pine ecosystem of south-central Oregon. Oecologia 46:239-243.
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- age classes
- community ecology
- decay
- Dendroctonus ponderosae
- diameter classes
- distribution
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire frequency
- fire injuries (plants)
- fire scar analysis
- fuel accumulation
- fungi
- mortality
- national forests
- nutrient cycling
- Oregon
- Phaelus scheinitzii
- pine forests
- Pinus contorta
- pioneer species
- plant diseases
- plant growth
- population density
- sampling
- soil nutrients
- statistical analysis
Tall Timbers Record Number: 3360 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Fire File • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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