Community structure of arboreal caterpillars within and among four tree species of the eastern deciduous forest

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 747-757

  Summerville, Keith S ^a   Crist, Thomas O ^b   Kahn, Jonathan K ^b,c   Gering, Jon C ^d  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MIAMI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Diversity partitioning; Forest canopy; Host specialisation; Insecticide fogging; Lepidoptera; Niche overlap

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HOST SPECIFICITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMALIA; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHACELIA CONGESTA; QUERCUS; SAPINDACEAE;

EID: 0348196716     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2003.00561.x     Document Type: Article

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