Population cycles in the pine looper moth: Dynamical tests of mechanistic hypotheses

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 259-276

  Kendall, Bruce E ^a,b,c   Ellner, Stephen P ^c   McCauley, Edward ^d   Wood, Simon N ^e,h   Briggs, Cheryl J ^f   Murdoch, William W ^a   Turchin, Peter ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food quality; Host parasitoid dynamics; Maternal effects; Nonlinear dynamics; Population cycles

Indexed keywords

FOOD QUALITY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; MATERNAL EFFECT; MOTH; POPULATION CYCLE;

CULBIN FOREST; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; FIFE; MORAY; ROSEISLE FOREST; SCOTLAND; TENTSMUIR FOREST; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE; WORLD;

BUPALUS PINIARIA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 18444411981     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-4056     Document Type: Article

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