Evaluating spring cankerworm (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) preference for Siberian elm clones

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 58-62

  Dix, Mary Ellen ^a   Cunningham, Richard A ^b   King, Rudy M ^c  

^a USDA National Agroforestry Center   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Host synchronization; Resistance; Survival; Tolerance; Ulmus pumila

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030505407     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/25.1.58     Document Type: Article

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