Moth outbreaks in relation to oak masting and population levels of small mammals: An alternative explanation to the mammal-predation hypothesis

Population Ecology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-159

  Selås, Vidar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acorns; Chemical defence; Lepidoptera; Lymantria dispar; Population cycles; Tortrix viridana

Indexed keywords

MASTING; MOTH; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION OUTBREAK;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; LYMANTRIIDAE; MAMMALIA; QUERCUS; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 0345107260     PISSN: 14383896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10144-003-0147-7     Document Type: Review

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