Can life-history and defence traits predict the population dynamics and natural enemy responses of insect herbivores?

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 662-673

  Veldtman, Ruan ^a,c   McGeoch, Melodie A ^b   Scholtz, Clarke H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL BIODIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Bird predation; Eruptive; Gonometa; Latent; Macrolepidoptera; Parasitism rate; Pupa

Indexed keywords

HERBIVORE; INSECT; LARVA; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; NATURAL ENEMY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SIZE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AVES; GONOMETA; GONOMETA RUFOBRUNNEA; HEXAPODA; LASIOCAMPIDAE; MACROLEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 36448958353     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00920.x     Document Type: Article

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