Assessing the role of bark- and wood-boring insects in the decline of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) in the Swiss Rhone valley

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 239-249

  Wermelinger, B ^a   Rigling, A ^a   Schneider Mathis, D ^a   Dobbertin, M ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bark beetles; Climate change; Crown transparency; Drought; Needle loss; Pest insects; Pine decline

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; DROUGHT STRESS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; VALLEY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; RHONE VALLEY; SWITZERLAND;

ACANTHOCINUS AEDILIS; BUPRESTIDAE; CERAMBYCIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; IPS ACUMINATUS; PHAENOPS; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; SCOLYTINAE; SIREX NOCTILIO; TOMICUS MINOR;

EID: 40349113148     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2007.00960.x     Document Type: Article

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