Defoliation and growth relationships for mid-rotation Sitka spruce attacked by the green spruce aphid, Elatobium abietinum (Walker) (Homoptera: Aphididae)

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1223-1235

  Straw, Nigel ^a   Fielding, Nick ^b   Green, Gill ^a   Price, John ^b   Williams, David ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b Forest Research   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Elatobium abietinum; Growth loss; Impact; Needle fall; Sitka spruce

Indexed keywords

DEFOLIATION; ELATOBIUM ABIETINUM; GROWTH LOSS; IMPACT; SITKA SPRUCE;

FORESTRY; NEEDLES; PLANT EXTRACTS; ROTATION; TISSUE;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

APHID; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DEFOLIATION; EVERGREEN TREE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GROWTH; GROWTH RESPONSE; INFECTIVITY; INSECTICIDE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; DEFOLIATION; EXTRACTIVES; FORESTRY; NEEDLES; PICEA SITCHENSIS; PLANTS; ROTATION; STATISTICS; TISSUE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

APHIDIDAE; ELATOBIUM ABIETINUM; HEMIPTERA; PICEA; PICEA SITCHENSIS;

EID: 79960596766     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.020     Document Type: Article

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