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Local Projections for a Global Model of Mountain Pine Beetle Attacks

✍ Scribed by James A. Powell; Jesse A. Logan; Barbara J. Bentz

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1996
Tongue: English
Weight: 538 KB
Volume: 179
Category: Article
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1006/jtbi.1996.0064

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✦ Synopsis

We derive a system of nonlinear partial differential equations describing the phenomenon of mountain pine beetles attacking lodgepole pine en masse. A methodology for projecting the behavior of these partial differential equations onto purely local ordinary differential equations is discussed and implemented. The behavior of this system of equations is analysed and compared heuristically with observations.

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