Developmental variation in the forest tent caterpillar: Life history consequences of a threshold size for pupation

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-143

  Etilé, Elsa ^a   Despland, Emma ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; GROWTH RATE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; METAMORPHOSIS; MOTH; PUPATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

HEXAPODA; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA;

EID: 36749078710     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2007.0030-1299.16114.x     Document Type: Article

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