Efficacy of tree defense physiology varies with bark beetle population density: A basis for positive feedback in eruptive species

Keyphrases

• Bark Beetle 100%
• Behavioral Plasticity 50%
• Chemical Attributes 50%
• Constitutive Defense 100%
• Cooperative Attack 50%
• Dendroctonus Ponderosae Hopkins 50%
• Endemic Situation 50%
• Eruptive Phase 50%
• Herbivore 50%
• Host Defense 50%
• Inducible Defense 100%
• Large-diameter Trees 50%
• Latifolia 50%
• Level Density 50%
• Lodgepole pine 50%
• Lower Stem 50%
• Major Constraints 50%
• Monoterpenes 100%
• Mountain pine Beetle 50%
• Physiological Characteristics 50%
• Pinus Contorta 50%
• Population Density 100%
• Positive Feedback 100%
• Resin 50%
• Resource-rich 50%
• Simulated Attack 50%
• Small Trees 50%
• Stand Level 50%
• Tree Defense 100%

Agricultural and Biological Sciences

• Bark Beetle 100%
• Inducible Defences 100%
• Mountain Pine Beetle 100%
• Pinus 50%
• Pinus contorta 50%
• Population Density 100%