Pine processionary caterpillar Thaumetopoea pityocampa as a new threat for relict Mediterranean Scots pine forests under climatic warming

Biological Conservation

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 123-129

  Hódar, José A ^a   Castro, Jorge ^a,b   Zamora, Regino ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Outbreaks; Plant growth; Plant insect interaction; Reproductive limitation; Winter temperatures

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFOLIATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; PEST OUTBREAK; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WARMING;

SPAIN;

INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA;

EID: 0037353317     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00183-0     Document Type: Article

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