Mobile parasitoids may restrict the spatial spread of an insect outbreak

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 65-72

  Brodmann, Paul A ^a   Wilcox, Chris V ^a   Harrison, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

diffusion; dispersal; parasitoids; population dynamics; spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; PARASITOID; PREDATOR DIFFUSION; WESTERN TUSSOCK MOTH;

DIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIIDAE; ORGYIA VETUSTA; TACHINIDAE;

EID: 0030621376     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/5965     Document Type: Article

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