9. Life History Traits and Host Plant Use in Defoliators and Bark Beetles: Implications for Population Dynamics

  1. Pedro Barbosa3,
  2. Deborah K. Letourneau4,
  3. Anurag A. Agrawal5,6
  1. Julia Koricheva1,
  2. Maartje J. Klapwijk2,
  3. Christer Björkman2

Published Online: 29 JUN 2012

DOI: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch9

Book Title

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

Insect Outbreaks Revisited

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How to Cite

Koricheva, J., Klapwijk, M. J. and Björkman, C. (2012) Life History Traits and Host Plant Use in Defoliators and Bark Beetles: Implications for Population Dynamics, in Insect Outbreaks Revisited (eds P. Barbosa, D. K. Letourneau and A. A. Agrawal), John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781118295205.ch9

Editor Information

  1. 3

    Department of Entomology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA

  2. 4

    Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA

  3. 5

    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

  4. 6

    Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

Author Information

  1. 1

    School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, UK

  2. 2

    Department of Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 750 07 Uppsala, Sweden

Publication History

  1. Published Online: 29 JUN 2012
  2. Published Print: 27 JUL 2012

ISBN Information

Print ISBN: 9781444337594

Online ISBN: 9781118295205

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Keywords:

  • population, community, and ecosystem ecology;
  • life history traits and host plant use, in defoliators and bark beetles;
  • life history traits, survival, reproduction, fitness of offspring;
  • phenotypic plasticity, and discrete phenotypes (morphs);
  • host plant characteristics, of herbivore population dynamics;
  • Macrolepidoptera, diprionid sawflies, bark beetles, population dynamics;
  • herbivore diet breadth on population dynamics;
  • poor female flying ability, and eruptive population dynamics;
  • outbreak species in Macrolepidoptera, convergence or parallelism

Summary

This chapter contains sections titled:

  • Introduction

  • Theoretical advances

  • Case study 1: Macrolepidoptera

  • Case study 2: Diprionid sawflies (Hymenoptera: Diprionidae)

  • Case study 3: Bark beetles (Curculionidae: Scolytinae)

  • Discussion and conclusions

  • Acknowledgments

  • Appendix: Literature used to collect information on life history traits of bark beetles

  • References

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