Spatial aggregation of the Colorado potato beetle described by an exponential dispersion model

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 151, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 261-269

  Kendal, Wayne S ^a  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Scale invariance; Spatial aggregation; Taylor's power law; Tweedie distributions; Variance to mean power function

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BEETLE; DISPERSION; POPULATION MODELING;

COLEOPTERA; LEPTINOTARSA DECEMLINEATA; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0036605988     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(01)00494-X     Document Type: Article

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