Reversed impacts by specialist parasitoids and generalist predators may explain a phase lag in moth cycles: A novel hypothesis and preliminary field tests

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 380-393

  Klemola, Netta ^a   Heisswolf, Annette ^a   Ammunét, Tea ^a   Ruohomäki, Kai ^a   Klemola, Tero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARVA; MORTALITY; MOTH; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; POPULATION CYCLE; SPECIALIST; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

EUROPE;

EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA;

EID: 72449186108     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.046.0504     Document Type: Article

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