Relationships between elm spanworm, Ennomos subsignaria, juvenile density and defoliation on mature sycamore maple in an urban environment

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 255, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2726-2732

  Fry, Heidi R C ^a   Quiring, Dan T ^a   Ryall, Krista L ^a,b   Dixon, Peggy L ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Density defoliation relationship; Elm spanworm; Ennomos subsignaria; Integrated pest management; Sycamore maple; Within tree distribution

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PEST CONTROL;

DENSITY-DEFOLIATION RELATIONSHIP; ENNOMOS SUBSIGNARIA; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; JUVENILE DENSITY; WITHIN-TREE DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY;

BIOMONITORING; CATERPILLAR; DECISION MAKING; DEFOLIATION; DICOTYLEDON; FIELDWORK; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; JUVENILE; POPULATION DENSITY; URBAN AREA;

ACER; DEFOLIATION; ULMUS;

CANADA; NEWFOUNDLAND; NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT JOHN'S;

ACER; ACER PSEUDOPLATANUS; ENNOMOS SUBSIGNARIA; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; SAPINDACEAE; ULMUS;

EID: 41949088316     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.01.039     Document Type: Article

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