Effects of ant exclusion during outbreaks of a defoliator and a sap-sucker on birch

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 185-194

  Karhu, Kari J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ant plant interactions; Betula pubescens; Epirrita autumnata; Euceraphis punctipennis; Formica aquilonia; Outbreaks; Plant Stress Hypothesis; Symydobius oblongus; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ANT; DEFOLIATION; EXCLUSION EXPERIMENT; INVERTEBRATE COMMUNITY; PREDATION; SOIL AMELIORATION;

ALEIODES TESTACEUS; APHIDIDAE; BETULA PUBESCENS; BRACONIDAE; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; EUCERAPHIS PUNCTIPENNIS; FORMICA AQUILONIA; FORMICIDAE; GEOMETRIDAE; HOMOPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; SYMDOBIUS OBLONGUS; SYMYDOBIUS OBLONGUS;

EID: 0031862338     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.1998.00116.x     Document Type: Article

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