Seasonal dynamics of mites and fungi and their interaction with southern pine beetle

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-30

  Hofstetter, Richard W ^a   Klepzig, Kier D ^b   Moser, John C ^b   Ayres, Matthew P ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetle; Dendroctonus; Mutualism; Ophiostoma; Tarsonemus

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; FUNGUS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MITE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVEY;

ACARI; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA; OPHIOSTOMA MINUS; SCOLYTINAE; TARSONEMUS;

EID: 33750212208     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-35.1.22     Document Type: Article

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