Host-pathogen population dynamics, basic reproductive rates and threshold densities

Oikos

Volumn 81, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 299-308

  Knell, Robert J ^a,b   Begon, Michael ^a   Thompson, David J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; HOST-PATHOGEN RELATIONSHIP; INDIAN MEAL MOTH; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTIVE RATE; THRESHOLD DENSITY;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; LEPIDOPTERA; PLODIA INTERPUNCTELLA; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 0031933578     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3547050     Document Type: Article

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