Geometrid outbreak waves travel across Europe

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-95

  Tenow, Olle ^a   Nilssen, Arne C ^b   Bylund, Helena ^a   Pettersson, Rickard ^c   Battisti, Andrea ^d   Bohn, Udo ^e   Caroulle, Fabien ^f   Ciornei, Constantin ^g   Csóka, György ^h   Delb, Horst ⁱ   De Prins, Willy ^j   Glavendekić, Milka ^k   Gninenko, Yuri I ^l   Hrašovec, Boris ^m   Matošević, Dinka ⁿ   Meshkova, Valentyna ^o   Moraal, Leen ^e   Netoiu, Constantin ^g   Pajares, Juan ^p   Rubtsov, Vasily ^q   Tomescu, Romica ^g   Utkina, Irina ^q   more..

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f DGFAR Sous Direction de la Forêt et du Bois   (France)

^g Institutul de Cercetari si Amenajari Silvice Romania   (Romania)

^h FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

ⁱ Forest Research Institute of Baden Württemberg   (Germany)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^l Branch of the Ail Russian Research Institute of Silviculture and Mechanization of Forestry   (Russian Federation)

^m UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

ⁿ CROATIAN FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^o Ukrainian Research Institute of Forestry and Forest Melioration   (Ukraine)

^p UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^q INSTITUTE OF FOREST SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

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Author keywords

Dispersal and synchronization; Reaction diffusion; Travelling waves; Wave theory

Indexed keywords

BROAD-LEAVED FOREST; DECADAL VARIATION; DEFOLIATION; DIFFUSION; MOTH; PEST OUTBREAK; STEPPE; SUBPOPULATION; SYNCHRONY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; MOTH; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EUROPE; MOTHS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TIME FACTORS;

ATLANTIC COAST [EUROPE]; SCANDES MOUNTAINS;

ANIMALIA; GEOMETRIDAE; LEPIDOPTERA; OPEROPHTERA BRUMATA;

EID: 84872598045     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2012.02023.x     Document Type: Article

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