Quantitative association of bark beetles with pitch canker fungus and effects of verbenone on their semiochemical communication in Monterey Pine Forests in Northern Spain

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 743-750

  Romón, Pedro ^a   Iturrondobeitia, Juan Carlos ^b   Gibson, Ken ^c   Lindgren, B Staffan ^d   Goldarazena, Arturo ^a  

^a NEIKER and a Vaccine producing Commercial Company CZVSL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Fusarium circinatum epidemiology; Pinus radiata; Semiochemical communication; Verbenone

Indexed keywords

PHEROMONE; TERPENE; VERBENONE;

BEETLE; BIOASSAY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FUNGUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PEST CONTROL; SEMIOCHEMICAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ARTICLE; BEETLE; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; FUNGUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PINE; SPAIN; TREE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; BEETLES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FUNGI; PHEROMONES; PINUS; SPAIN; TERPENES; TREES;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPAIN;

BRACHYDERES; COLEOPTERA; DRYOCOETES AUTOGRAPHUS; ENTIMINAE; FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA CIRCINATA; HEXAPODA; HYLASTES ATER; HYLASTES ATTENUATUS; HYLURGOPS PALLIATUS; HYLURGUS LIGNIPERDA; HYPOTHENEMUS ERUDITUS; IPS SEXDENTATUS; ORTHOTOMICUS EROSUS; PINUS RADIATA; PITYOPHTHORUS; SCOLYTINAE; TOMICUS PINIPERDA; XYLEBORUS DRYOGRAPHUS;

EID: 34548158452     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[743:QAOBBW]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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