Insect responses to major landscape-level disturbance

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 57, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-20

  Schowalter, T D ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Local extinction; Outbreak; Population dynamics; Succession; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DISASTER; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; INSECT; POLLUTION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DISASTERS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; INSECTS;

EID: 83455168908     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ento-120710-100610     Document Type: Review

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