Disasters by Design: Outbreaks along Urban Gradients

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 311-340

  Raupp, Michael J ^a   Shrewsbury, Paula M ^a   Herms, Dan A ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Applied perspectives; Arthropod pest outbreaks and urban gradient features; Disasters by design, outbreaks along urban gradients; Features and mechanisms, contributing to outbreaks; Impervious surfaces, water infiltration and drought stress; Low biodiversity and catastrophic loss in cities; Phenological synchrony of host and herbivore; Predator prey interaction effects; Top down suppression relaxation of herbivores in cities; Urbanization, land as forests, deserts, prairies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886491892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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