Interactions among gypsy moths, white-footed mice, and acorns

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2332-2342

  Elkinton, Joseph S ^a   Healy, William M ^a   Buonaccorsi, John P ^a   Boettner, George H ^a   Hazzard, Anne M ^a   Smith, Harvey R ^b   Liebhold, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acorns; Bootstrap; Density dependence; Insect outbreaks; Lymantria dispar; Peromyscus leucopus; Quercus; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

CRICETINAE; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; PEROMYSCUS; PEROMYSCUS LEUCOPUS; QUERCUS; LYMANTRIIDAE;

ACORN; GYPSY MOTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WHITE-FOOTED MOUSE;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS;

EID: 0030753033     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265735     Document Type: Article

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