No impact of pupal predation on the altitudinal distribution of autumnal moth and winter moth (Lepidoptera: Geometridae) in sub-arctic birch forest

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 627-632

  Hansen, Norun M ^a   Ims, Rolf A ^a   Hagen, Snorre B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; DECIDUOUS FOREST; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MAMMAL; MOTH; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATION; PUPA; SUBARCTIC REGION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EURASIA; FENNOSCANDIA;

EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; SOREX ARANEUS; SORICIDAE;

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRCH; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; LARVA; MOTH; NORWAY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATION; SHREW;

ALTITUDE; ANIMALS; BETULA; LARVA; MOTHS; NORWAY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PUPA; SHREWS;

EID: 68049092872     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0313     Document Type: Article

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