Cyclicity and Synchrony of Historical Outbreaks of the Beech Caterpillar, Quadricalcarifera punctatella (Motschulsky) in Japan

Researches on Population Ecology

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 87-94

  Liebhold, Andrew ^a   Kamata, Naoto ^b   Jacob, Thomas ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation function; Cyclicity; Markov model; Spectral analysis; Synchrony; Time series

Indexed keywords

FAGUS; QUADRICALCARIFERA; QUADRICALCARIFERA PUNCTATELLA;

EID: 53349095306     PISSN: 00345466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02514974     Document Type: Article

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