How sanitation felling affects the spread of bark beetles

By simulating real world forests, Pietzsch and colleagues investigated the effectiveness of sanitation felling on stopping the spread of a bark beetle population from an un-managed to a managed forest area. The results of their study are published open access:

Pietzsch, B. W., Peter, F. J., Berger, U. (2021). The Effect of Sanitation Felling on the Spread of the European Spruce Bark Beetle — An Individual-Based Modeling Approach. Front. For. Glob. Change 4:704930.