Fitness consequences of pheromone production and host selection strategies in a tree-killing bark beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

Oecologia

Volumn 148, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 720-728

  Pureswaran, Deepa S ^a,c   Sullivan, Brian T ^b   Ayres, Matthew P ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attack synchrony; Cooperation; Southern pine beetle; Stabilising selection; Timing of arrival

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE;

BEETLE; FITNESS; HOST SELECTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHEROMONE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; PHEROMONES; TIME FACTORS; TREES;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; PINUS ELLIOTTII; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 33745427136     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0400-9     Document Type: Article

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