White pine weevil attack on white spruce: A survival time analysis

Ecological Applications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 225-232

  He, Fangliang ^a   Alfaro, René I ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accelerated failure time model; Censored observations; Lognormal distribution; Modeling survivorship and hazard rates; Pest management; Picea glauca; Pissodes strobi; Survival time analysis; Survivorship; Time to attack; White pine weevil; White spruce

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; CONIFEROUS TREE; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; PEST DAMAGE; PEST RESISTANCE; SURVIVAL;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

COLEOPTERA; CONIFERALES; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; PICEA GLAUCA; PISSODES STROBI;

EID: 0034142236     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2000)010[0225:WPWAOW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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