Dietary benefits of fungal associates to an eruptive herbivore: Potential implications of multiple associates on host population dynamics

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1384-1396

  Bleiker, K P ^a,b   Six, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dendroctonus ponderosae; Grosmannia clavigera; Mutualism; Mycophagy; Ophiostoma montium

Indexed keywords

NITROGEN;

BEETLE; COLONIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FIELDWORK; FUNGUS; LABORATORY METHOD; MUTUALISM; MYCOPHAGY; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHLOEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BEETLE; BODY SIZE; CHEMISTRY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; MALE; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; TIME;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BEETLES; BODY SIZE; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LARVA; MALE; NITROGEN; PHLOEM; PINUS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CLAVIGERA; COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; FUNGI; OPHIOSTOMA MONTIUM; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 40549121588     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[1384:DBOFAT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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