Development of a technique for sampling mountain pine beetle populations in lodgepole pine.

A technique was developed for sampling the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, several times during its life cycle for the purposes of estimating within-generation mortality and population trend. The sampling technique is based on a critical study of the density gradients of brood...

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Main Author: Safranyik, Laszlo
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/35554