From trickle to flood: The large-scale, cryptic invasion of California by tropical fruit flies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1768, 2013, Pages

  Papadopoulos, Nikos T ^a   Plant, Richard E ^b   Carey, James R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging   (United States)

Author keywords

Eradication; Invasion biology; Subdetectable populations; Tephritidae

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; FLY; FRUIT; INVASIBILITY; MAPPING; PEST CONTROL; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; STATE ROLE; URBAN AREA;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

BACTROCERA CUCURBITAE; BACTROCERA DORSALIS; CUCUMIS; PRUNUS PERSICA; PSIDIUM; TEPHRITIDAE;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GEOGRAPHY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEPHRITIDAE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; GEOGRAPHY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 84898260941     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.1466     Document Type: Article

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