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Title	Emerald ash borer intensifies harvest regimes on private land
Author	Jonathan R. Holt, Jennifer R. Smetzer, Mark E. Borsuk, Danelle Laflower, David A. Orwig, Jonathan R. Thompson
Date	2021-08-05
Description	We found that EAB detection had a negative impact on annual harvest probability and a positive impact on harvest intensity, resulting in a net increase in harvested biomass. Furthermore, our estimates suggest that EAB detection will influence private landowners to harvest greater quantities of ash, relative to non-ash species. We also found that harvested trees in EAB-infested areas had smaller diameters, on average, compared with those unaffected by EAB. These results can help policymakers, forest managers, and extension programs to anticipate and better advise landowners and managers about their options and the associated outcomes for forests.
Keywords	causal inference, coupled human and natural systems, covariate matching, disturbanceecology, emerald ash borer, forest inventory and analysis, forest management,Fraxinus,harvest regimes, invasive insects, zero-inflated beta regression
URL	https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/eap.2508
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