Life history and host-plant relationships of the rare endemic Arctic aphid Acyrthosiphon calvulus in a changing environment

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 229-237

  Gillespie, Mark ^a   Hodkinson, Ian D ^a   Cooper, Elisabeth J ^b   Bird, Jeremy M ^a   Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg S ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY CENTRE IN SVALBARD   (Norway)

Author keywords

Aphididae; Homoptera; Metapopulation; Pedicularis hirsuta; Phenology; Progeny; Reproduction; Salix polaris; Sex ratio; Spitsbergen; Survival; Svalbard

Indexed keywords

APHID; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HOST PLANT; LIFE HISTORY; METAPOPULATION; OVERWINTERING; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RARE SPECIES; REPRODUCTION; SEX RATIO; SURVIVAL;

ARCTIC; SPITSBERGEN; SVALBARD; SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN;

ACYRTHOSIPHON; APHIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; PEDICULARIS; PEDICULARIS HIRSUTA; SALICACEAE; SALIX; SALIX POLARIS; SCROPHULARIACEAE;

EID: 34447560060     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00547.x     Document Type: Article

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