Low temperature tolerance and starvation ability of the oak processionary moth: Implications in a context of increasing epidemics

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 239-250

  Meurisse, Nicolas ^a   Hoch, Gernot ^b   Schopf, Axel ^b   Battisti, Andrea ^c   Grégoire, Jean Claude ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chilling injury; Cold hardiness; Insect range shift; Lower lethal temperature; Phenological mistiming; Supercooling point; Thaumetopoea processionea

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; THAUMETOPOEA PROCESSIONEA;

EID: 84863775606     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2011.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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