Factors influencing bark beetle outbreaks after forest fires on the iberian peninsula

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1007-1018

  Lombardero, Mara J ^a   Ayres, Matthew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b Dartmouth College ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

defenses; natural enemies; nutritional quality; outbreak; Scolytinae

Indexed keywords

OLEORESINS; PLANT EXTRACT;

ABUNDANCE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CONIFEROUS FOREST; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NATURAL ENEMY; PEST OUTBREAK; PROBABILITY; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FIRE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SECRETION (PROCESS); SPAIN;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FIRES; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PINUS; PLANT EXTRACTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SPAIN;

IBERIAN PENINSULA; SPAIN;

COLEOPTERA; PINUS PINASTER; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 80054112371     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11022     Document Type: Article

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