Spatial synchrony in forest insect outbreaks: Roles of regional stochasticity and dispersal

Ecology

Volumn 83, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3120-3129

  Peltonen, Mikko ^a,c   Liebhold, Andrew M ^a   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^b   Williams, David W ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Maa ja metsatalousministerio Finland   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Choristoneura fumiferana; Choristoneura occidentalis; Defoliation; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Landscape ecology; Lymantria dispar; Malacosoma disstria; Population dynamics; Spatial synchrony; Zeiraphera diniana

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; DISPERSAL; FOREST; INSECT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; SYNCHRONY;

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; CHORISTONEURA OCCIDENTALIS; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; INSECTA; LARIX; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA; PICEA; PINUS MUGO; ZEIRAPHERA; ZEIRAPHERA DINIANA;

EID: 0037971466     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2002)083[3120:SSIFIO]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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