Temperature extremes, density dependence, and southern pine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) population dynamics in east Texas

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 650-659

  Friedenberg, Nicholas A ^a,b   Sarkar, Sudipta ^c   Kouchoukos, Nicholas ^c   Billings, Ronald F ^d   Ayres, Matthew P ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Lanworth   (United States)

^d Texas Forest Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Dendroctonus frontalis; Outbreaks; Thanasimus dubius; Upper lethal temperature

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION OUTBREAK; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEMPERATURE; TEXAS;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; THANASIMUS DUBIUS;

EID: 46849105675     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[650:TEDDAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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