Old Mountain Birches at High Altitudes Are Prone to Outbreaks of Epirrita autumnata (Lepidoptera: Geometridae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1096-1104

  Ruohomäki, Kai ^a   Virtanen, Tarmo ^a   Kaitaniemi, Pekka ^a,b   Tammaru, Toomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birch age; Epirrita autumnata; Larval density; Outbreak; Site characteristics; Winter minimum temperature

Indexed keywords

BETULA; BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 0000791287     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.5.1096     Document Type: Article

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