Indirect effects of pandemic deer overabundance inferred from caterpillar-host relations

Conservation Biology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1107-1116

  Wheatall, Laura ^a   Nuttle, Tim ^a,b   Yerger, Ellen ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Civ and Environ Consultants Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Allegheny hardwoods; Herbivory; Lepidoptera; Northern hardwoods; Pennsylvania; Sawflies

Indexed keywords

BROWSING; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DEER; FEEDING; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORY; INSECT; LARVA; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES RICHNESS; TREE; VEGETATION;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

ACER; ACER PENSYLVANICUM; ACER RUBRUM; ACER SACCHARUM; ARTHROPODA; BETULA; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; BETULA LENTA; CERVIDAE; FAGUS; FAGUS GRANDIFOLIA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS; PRUNUS; PRUNUS PENSYLVANICA; PRUNUS SEROTINA; SYMPHYTA;

ACER; ALLEGHENY HARDWOODS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEECH; BIODIVERSITY; BIRCH; DEER; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORÍA; HERBIVORY; LARVA; LEPIDOPTERA; MADERAS DURAS DE ALLEGHENY; MADERAS DURAS DEL NORTE; MOSCAS SIERRA; MOTH; NORTHERN HARDWOODS; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRUNUS; SAWFLIES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ALLEGHENY HARDWOODS; HERBIVORÍA; HERBIVORY; LEPIDOPTERA; MADERAS DURAS DE ALLEGHENY; MADERAS DURAS DEL NORTE; MOSCAS SIERRA; NORTHERN HARDWOODS; PENNSYLVANIA; SAWFLIES;

ACER; ANIMALS; BETULA; BIODIVERSITY; DEER; FAGUS; FOOD CHAIN; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MOTHS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRUNUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84884720271     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cobi.12077     Document Type: Article

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