Allee effects and pulsed invasion by the gypsy moth

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7117, 2006, Pages 361-363

  Johnson, Derek M ^a   Liebhold, Andrew M ^b   Tobin, Patrick C ^b   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; GROWTH KINETICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; PERIODIC PULSED INVASIONS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; MOTH; RANGE EXPANSION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GYPSY MOTH; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES INVASION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

LYMANTRIA DISPAR;

EID: 33751104176     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05242     Document Type: Article

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