Temperature-driven range expansion of an irruptive insect heightened by weakly coevolved plant defenses

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2193-2198

  Raffa, Kenneth F ^a   Powell, Erinn N ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Coevolution; Disturbance; Forest insects; Plant insect interactions

Indexed keywords

LIMONENE; PINENE; TERPENE;

ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COLD; NATURAL ENEMY; NONHUMAN; PHLOEM; PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESS; PINE; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MONOTERPENES; PHLOEM; PINUS; PLANT DISEASES; RESINS, PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84873452904     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1216666110     Document Type: Article

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