Chemical similarity between historical and novel host plants promotes range and host expansion of the mountain pine beetle in a naïve host ecosystem

New Phytologist

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 940-950

  Erbilgin, Nadir ^a   Ma, Cary ^a   Whitehouse, Caroline ^b   Shan, Bin ^a   Najar, Ahmed ^a   Evenden, Maya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Forest Management Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Dendroctonus ponderosae; Invasion biology; Jack pine; Pinus banksiana

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; BOREAL FOREST; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONIFEROUS TREE; HOST PLANT; HOST RANGE; PHEROMONE; RANGE EXPANSION;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS BANKSIANA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

PHEROMONE; TERPENE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; CHEMISTRY; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; ECOSYSTEM; FLYING; GEOGRAPHY; HOST RANGE; INVASION BIOLOGY; JACK PINE; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PINE; PINUS BANKSIANA; TAIGA;

BOREAL FOREST; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; INVASION BIOLOGY; JACK PINE; PINUS BANKSIANA;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; HOST SPECIFICITY; MONOTERPENES; NORTH AMERICA; PHEROMONES; PINUS;

EID: 84891902185     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12573     Document Type: Article

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