Climate variability, biological control and an insect pest outbreak on Australia's Coral Sea islets: Lessons for invertebrate conservation

Journal of Insect Conservation

Volumn 12, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 333-342

  Greenslade, Penelope ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attendant ants; Biological control; Pisonia grandis; Pulvinaria urbicollis; Sea surface temperatures

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DISPERSAL; PEST CONTROL; PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION DECLINE;

CORAL SEA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; LINE ISLANDS; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PALMYRA ATOLL; POLYNESIA; SAMOA; SEYCHELLES;

ANTHOZOA; AVES; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; PALMYRA; PISONIA; PISONIA GRANDIS; PULVINARIA; PULVINARIA URBICOLA; TETRAMORIUM BICARINATUM;

EID: 44949091280     PISSN: 1366638X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10841-008-9157-2     Document Type: Article

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