White Pine Weevil (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) Attack on White Spruce: Spatial and Temporal Patterns

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 888-895

  He, Fangliang ^a   Alfaro, René I ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attack pattern; Modeling; Picea spp.; Pissodes strobi; Tree resistance

Indexed keywords

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA; PISSODES STROBI;

EID: 0008946651     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/26.4.888     Document Type: Article

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