Importance of Ecological Variables in Explaining Population Dynamics of Three Important Pine Pest Insects

Importance of Ecological Variables in Explaining Population Dynamics of Three Important Pine Pest Insects

Climate change challenges forest vitality both directly by increasing drought and heat periods and indirectly, e.g., by creating favorable conditions for mass outbreaks of phyllophagous insects. The large forests dominated by Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) that cover the lowland regions in northea...

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Main Authors: Rainer Hentschel, Katrin Möller, Aline Wenning, Annett Degenhardt, Jens Schröder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Plant Science
Subjects:
ecological modeling
Random Forest
mass outbreak
Pinus sylvestris
Lymantria monacha
Dendrolimus pini
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpls.2018.01667/full

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