Mate-finding failure as an important cause of Allee effects along the leading edge of an invading insect population

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 307-314

  Contarini, Mario ^a,b   Onufrieva, Ksenia S ^c   Thorpe, Kevin W ^d   Raffa, Kenneth F ^b   Tobin, Patrick C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^e NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Gypsy moth; Invasive species; Lepidoptera; Lymantria dispar; Lymantriidae; Non native species; Spread

Indexed keywords

ALLEE EFFECT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; INVASIBILITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MATING BEHAVIOR; MOTH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION REGULATION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; LYMANTRIIDAE;

EID: 73149116854     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2009.00930.x     Document Type: Article

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