Spatial Synchrony of Insect Outbreaks

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 113-125

  Liebhold, Andrew M ^a   Haynes, Kyle J ^b   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^c  

^a NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"spatial synchrony," spatially disjunct populations correlated in time; Food web interactions in population synchrony; Outbreak synchrony, insect populations and management; Quantifying synchrony, using Pearson product moment correlation; Spatial synchrony in population dynamics, weather varying with time; Spatial synchrony of insect outbreaks; Trophic interactions; Ubiquity of spatial synchrony in forest outbreaks, and "inverse problem"

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878195341     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch6     Document Type: Chapter

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