Simulated climate warming alters phenological synchrony between an outbreak insect herbivore and host trees

Oecologia

Volumn 175, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1041-1049

  Schwartzberg, Ezra G ^a,b   Jamieson, Mary A ^a   Raffa, Kenneth F ^a   Reich, Peter B ^c,d   Montgomery, Rebecca A ^c   Lindroth, Richard L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Adirondack Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aspen; Birch; Climate change; Malacosoma disstria; Plant insect interactions; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CLIMATE CHANGE; DECIDUOUS TREE; INSECT; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SYNCHRONY;

BETULA PAPYRIFERA; HEXAPODA; MALACOSOMA DISSTRIA; POPULUS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRCH; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULUS; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE; TREE;

ANIMALS; BETULA; GLOBAL WARMING; HERBIVORY; LARVA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHS; POPULUS; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE; TREES;

EID: 84902814404     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-2960-4     Document Type: Article

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