Summer temperature dependency of larch budmoth outbreaks revealed by Alpine tree-ring isotope chronologies

Oecologia

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 353-365

  Kress, Anne ^a   Saurer, Matthias ^a   Büntgen, Ulf ^b   Treydte, Kerstin S ^b   Bugmann, Harald ^c   Siegwolf, Rolf T W ^a  

^a PAUL SCHERRER INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Climate change; Defoliation; Dendrochronology; European larch; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

CARBON; NITROGEN;

AGE CLASS; CARBON ISOTOPE; CELLULOSE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; PEST OUTBREAK; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; STABLE ISOTOPE; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TREE RING;

AGE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; CYTOLOGY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARIX; MOTH; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CLIMATE; LARIX; MOTHS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASONS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND; TEMPERATURE;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

LARIX; LARIX DECIDUA; LARIX LYALLII; PICEA; PICEA ABIES; ZEIRAPHERA DINIANA;

EID: 67349281987     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1290-4     Document Type: Article

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