Escape from pupal predation as a potential cause of outbreaks of the winter moth, Operophtera brumata

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Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 219-228

  Raymond, B ^a,b   Vanbergen, A ^a   Watt, A ^a   Hartley, S E ^a,c   Cory, J S ^a   Hails, R S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOTH; NATURAL ENEMY; PEST OUTBREAK; PLANTATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATOR;

UNITED KINGDOM;

COLEOPTERA; GEOMETRIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; QUERCUS; UNIDENTIFIED AGENTS;

EID: 0036687740     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2002.980204.x     Document Type: Article

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