Seasonal changes in the distribution of green spruce aphid Elatobium abietinum (Walker) (Homoptera: Aphididae) in the canopy of Sitka spruce

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 139-154

  Straw, Nigel ^a   Fielding, Nick ^b   Green, Gill ^a   Price, John ^b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Forest Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canopy distribution; Elatobium abietinum; Picea sitchensis; Population density; Sampling; Sitka spruce

Indexed keywords

APHIDIDAE; HEMIPTERA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 55049098785     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2006.00295.x     Document Type: Article

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