Latitudinal gradients and the shaping of life-history traits in a gregarious caterpillar

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 224-236

  Pimentel, Carla ^a   Ferreira, Claudia ^a   Nilsson, Jan Åke ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Ecology Building   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Clutch size; Development time; Lepidoptera; Phenology; Social insects; Thaumetopoea pityocampa

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CLUTCH SIZE; EGG PARASITOID; FECUNDITY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MORTALITY; MOTH; SOCIAL INSECT; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA;

EID: 77952929578     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01413.x     Document Type: Article

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