Effects of gallery density and species ratio on the fitness and ecundity of two sympatric bark beetles (Coleoptera: Curculionidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 639-650

  Davis, T S ^a   Hofstetter, R W ^a  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; Dendroctonus breoicomis; Dendroctonus frontalis; Ponderosa pine; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COEXISTENCE; COLONIZATION; CONIFEROUS TREE; CONSPECIFIC; FECUNDITY; FITNESS; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMPATRY;

ARIZONA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; DENDROCTONUS; DENDROCTONUS BREVICOMIS; DENDROCTONUS FRONTALIS; SCOLYTINAE;

SEX PHEROMONE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FERTILITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PONDEROSA PINE; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ARIZONA; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; OVIPOSITION; PINUS PONDEROSA; POPULATION DENSITY; SEX ATTRACTANTS;

EID: 68049114435     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/022.038.0315     Document Type: Article

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