Using mechanistic models to understand synchrony in forest insect populations: The North American gypsy moth as a case study

American Naturalist

Volumn 172, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 613-624

  Abbott, Karen C ^a,b   Dwyer, Greg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated environmental stochasticity; Difference equation model; Dispersal kernel; Lymantria dispar; Route to chaos; Spatial synchrony

Indexed keywords

CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; DEFOLIATION; DISPERSAL; MOTH; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; SUBPOPULATION; SYNCHRONY;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICS; TREE;

AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTHS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREES;

HEXAPODA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR;

EID: 54349103051     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/591679     Document Type: Article

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