Impact of climatic variation on populations of pine processionary moth Thaumetopoea pityocampa in a core area of its distribution

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 273-281

  Pimentel, Carla ^a,b   Calvão, Teresa ^a   Ayres, Matthew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^b Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Development rate; Egg number; Egg size; Final mass; Lepidoptera; Mortality rate; Pinus pinaster; Portugal; Precipitation; Solar radiation

Indexed keywords

CAUDATA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHRYXE; PINUS PINASTER; TACHINIDAE; THAUMETOPOEA PITYOCAMPA;

EID: 79960377126     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2011.00520.x     Document Type: Article

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