Waves of larch budmoth outbreaks in the European alps

Science

Volumn 298, Issue 5595, 2002, Pages 1020-1023

  Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a   Peltonen, Mikko ^a   Liebhold, Andrew M ^a   Baltensweiler, Werner ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS;

LANDSCAPES;

ECOLOGY;

PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ARTICLE; DEFOLIATION; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARIX; MOTH; NONHUMAN; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENVIRONMENT; EUROPE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LARIX; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PARASITES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

ARACHNIDA; HEXAPODA; LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; LEPIDOPTERA; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 0036829686     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1075182     Document Type: Article

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