Fecundity of the autumnal moth depends on pooled geometrid abundance without a time lag: Implications for cyclic population dynamics

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 597-604

  Klemola, Tero ^a   Andersson, Tommi ^a   Ruohomäki, Kai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Density dependent fecundity; Forest Lepidoptera; Insect outbreaks; Population cycles; Rapid and delayed inducible resistances

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BODY SIZE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FECUNDITY; MOTH; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRCH; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HISTOLOGY; LARVA; MALE; MOTH; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASON; TIME;

ANIMALS; BETULA; BODY SIZE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; LARVA; MALE; MOTHS; NORWAY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

BETULA PUBESCENS; BETULA PUBESCENS SUBSP. TORTUOSA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA;

EID: 42149183658     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01369.x     Document Type: Article

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