Insect outbreaks produce distinctive carbon isotope signatures in defensive resins and fossiliferous ambers

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1722, 2011, Pages 3219-3224

  Mckellar, Ryan C ^a   Wolfe, Alexander P ^a   Muehlenbachs, Karlis ^a   Tappert, Ralf ^a   Engel, Michael S ^b   Cheng, Tao ^c   Sánchez Azofeifa, G Arturo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominican amber; Mountain pine beetle; New jersey amber; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

AMBER; BEETLE; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONIFEROUS TREE; CRETACEOUS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL RECORD; PALEOBOTANY; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PARASITE INFESTATION; STABLE ISOTOPE; VOLUME; WATER STRESS;

CANADA;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 80053193875     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0276     Document Type: Article

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