Population cycles in forest lepidoptera revisited

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 44, Issue , 2013, Pages 565-592

  Myers, Judith H ^a   Cory, Jenny S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Cyclic dynamics; Immunity; Parasitism; Pathogens; Synchrony; Traveling waves

Indexed keywords

BUTTERFLY; FECUNDITY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GLOBAL WARMING; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; IMMUNITY; PARASITISM; PATHOGEN; PLANT DEFENSE; POPULATION CYCLE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION OUTBREAK;

HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 84888600246     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110512-135858     Document Type: Review

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