Putting the brakes on a cycle: Bottom-up effects damp cycle amplitude

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 310-318

  Bell, James R ^a   Burkness, Eric C ^b   Milne, Alice E ^a   Onstad, David W ^c   Abrahamson, Mark ^d   Hamilton, Krista L ^e   Hutchison, William D ^b  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^e Div of Agric Resource Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Bt maize; Cycle collapse; Epidemic persistence; European corn borer moth; Nosema pyrausta; Ostrinia nubilalis; Regime change; Spatial scaling; Transgenic crops

Indexed keywords

LEPIDOPTERA; NOSEMA; NOSEMA PYRAUSTA; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CROP; LARVA; MAIZE; MINNESOTA; MOTH; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSGENIC PLANT; WISCONSIN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; LARVA; MINNESOTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHS; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POPULATION DENSITY; WISCONSIN; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84931748934     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01739.x     Document Type: Article

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