A review of bronze birch borer (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) life history, ecology, and management

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1372-1385

  Muilenburg, Vanessa L ^a   Herms, Daniel A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Betula; forest decline; host plant resistance; insect outbreaks; population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BOREAL FOREST; CLIMATE CHANGE; COEVOLUTION; COLONIZATION; DECIDUOUS TREE; DEFOLIATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HOST PLANT; INSECTICIDE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY; MORTALITY; NATURAL ENEMY; PEST OUTBREAK; PEST RESISTANCE; PHENOLOGY; PHLOEM; SPECIALIST; TEMPERATE FOREST;

ANIMAL; BEETLE; BIRCH; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BETULA; CLIMATE CHANGE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT CONTROL; LARVA; NORTH AMERICA; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

NORTH AMERICA;

AGRILUS ANXIUS; BETULA; BUPRESTIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84871538006     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN12238     Document Type: Review

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