Research Article
Effects of a Severe Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic in Western Alberta, Canada under Two Forest Management Scenarios
Table 1
Transition matrix used to determine the fate of stands after MPB attack in the absence of salvage operations.
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calculations were done at the stand level using forest inventory data. For each forest type we determined the composition of stands before attack, applied the transition rules described in the text, and then reclassified the stands based on their new composition. |