1200 Years of regular outbreaks in alpine insects

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1610, 2007, Pages 671-679

  Esper, Jan ^a   Büntgen, Ulf ^a   Frank, David C ^a   Nievergelt, Daniel ^a   Liebhold, Andrew ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; European Alps; Population dynamics; Tree rings; Zeiraphera diniana

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DECIDUOUS TREE; MOTH; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RECONSTRUCTION; TREE RING;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; HERBIVORE; INSECT; LIFE HISTORY; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OSCILLATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; WARMING; ZEIRAPHERA DINIANA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; CLIMATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTOLOGY; LARIX; MOTH; PLANT STEM; POPULATION DENSITY; SWITZERLAND; TIME;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

HEXAPODA; LARIX LYALLII; ZEIRAPHERA DINIANA;

ANIMALS; AUSTRIA; CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; LARIX; MOTHS; PLANT STEMS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947529761     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.0191     Document Type: Review

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