Local and regional dynamics of a specialist herbivore: Overexploitation of a patchily distributed host plant

Oecologia

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 256-263

  Schöps, Katrin ^a,b  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Conservation; Metapopulation; Spatial heterogeneity; Unstable local dynamics

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; INSECT; LOCAL EXTINCTION; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ACIPHYLLA DIEFFENBACHII; ANIMALIA; APIACEAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HADRAMPHUS; HADRAMPHUS SPINIPENNIS; INSECTA;

EID: 0036934208     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-002-0936-2     Document Type: Article

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