Timing is everything? Phenological synchrony and population variability in leaf-chewing herbivores of Quercus

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 276-285

  Forkner, Rebecca E ^a,b   Marquis, Robert J ^a   Lill, John T ^a,c   Corff, Josiane Le ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UMR SAGAH A 462   (France)

Author keywords

Budburst; Lepidoptera; Plant phenology; Population dynamics; Quercus

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DECIDUOUS TREE; HERBIVORE; INTERPOPULATION VARIATION; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; MOTH; PHENOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYNCHRONY;

GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; QUERCUS; QUERCUS ALBA; QUERCUS VELUTINA;

EID: 40349083828     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00976.x     Document Type: Article

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