Invading and resident defoliators in a changing climate: Cold tolerance and predictions concerning extreme winter cold as a range-limiting factor

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 212-220

  Ammunét, Tea ^a,d   Kaukoranta, Timo ^b   Saikkonen, Kari ^b   Repo, Tapani ^c   Klemola, Tero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b PLANT PRODUCTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Comparing populations; Egg super cooling point (SCP); Environmental variation; Erannis defoliaria; Humidity; Operophtera fagata; Species abundance; Winter survival

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD TOLERANCE; DEFOLIATION; EGG; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTREME EVENT; HUMIDITY; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOTH; OVERWINTERING; PEST OUTBREAK; PEST SPECIES; PREDICTION; RANGE EXPANSION; RANGE SIZE; RESIDENT POPULATION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WINTER;

FENNOSCANDIA;

AGRIOPIS AURANTIARIA; EPIRRITA AUTUMNATA; ERANNIS DEFOLIARIA; GEOMETRIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA; OPEROPHTERA FAGATA;

EID: 84861493895     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2012.01358.x     Document Type: Article

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