The form of host density-dependence and the likelihood of host-pathogen cycles in forest-insect systems

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 86-95

  Liu, W C ^a,b,c   Bonsall, M B ^a,d   Godfray, H C J ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competition; Density dependence; Forest insects; Host pathogen dynamics; Mathematical models

Indexed keywords

DENSITY DEPENDENCE; HOST; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INSECT; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION CYCLE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INSECT; MORTALITY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TREES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 34249934438     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2007.01.002     Document Type: Article

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