Expansion of the winter moth outbreak range: no restrictive effects of competition with the resident autumnal moth

: Ammunét T, Heisswolf A, Klemola N, Klemola T

Publisher: WILEY-BLACKWELL

: 2010

: Ecological Entomology

: ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

: ECOL ENTOMOL

: 1

: 35

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: 0307-6946

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01154.x

4. Thus, we conclude that neither direct nor indirect inter-specific competition is capable of suppressing the spread of the winter moth outbreak range and that both are also an unlikely cause for the phase lag between the phase-locked population cycles of the two moth species.

Ecology, evolutionary biology