Variation in the abundance of invertebrate predators of the green spruce aphid Elatobium abietinum (Walker) (Homoptera: Aphididae) along an altitudinal transect

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-10

  Straw, N A ^a   Timms, J E L ^b   Leather, S R ^b  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Altitudinal transect; Climate change; Elatobium abietinum; Insect predators; Sampling; Sitka spruce

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDINAL TRANSECT; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COLD WEATHERS; ELATOBIUM ABIETINUM; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURES; GENERALIST PREDATORS; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HIGHER TEMPERATURES; INSECT PREDATORS; LOCAL CLIMATES; LOW ALTITUDES; MARITIME CLIMATES; MEAN DENSITIES; NATURAL ENEMIES; POPULATION DENSITIES; SEA-LEVEL; SITKA SPRUCE; TEMPERATURE REGIMES;

MAMMALS; SEAWATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ABUNDANCE; APHID; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFOLIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; EVERGREEN TREE; MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SURVIVAL;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

APHIDIDAE; ARANEAE; CANTHARIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; ELATOBIUM ABIETINUM; HEMEROBIIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA; OPILIONES; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 67349093498     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.03.032     Document Type: Article

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