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Defoliation by the forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria) and drought in the 1960s and 1980s led to reduced growth and predisposed some stands to secondary damage by wood-boring insects and fungal pathogens.
Climate change and insects as a forest disturbance in the Arctic 2009
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