Life history and behavioural traits of Mnesampela privata that exacerbate population responses to eucalypt plantations: Comparisons with Australian and outbreak species of forest geometrid from the Northern Hemisphere

Austral Ecology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 525-534

  Steinbauer, Martin J ^a   McQuillan, Peter B ^b   Young, Catherine J ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Geometridae; Lepidoptera; Myrtaceae; Natural enemies hypothesis; Resource concentration hypothesis; Vegetational diversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344275968     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1442-9993.2001.01130.x     Document Type: Article

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