Transcontinental Crashes of Insect Populations?

Authors

Bradford A. Hawkins, University of California, IrvineFollow
Marcel Holyoak, University of California, DavisFollow

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

The American Naturalist

Volume

152

Issue

3

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

First Page

480

Last Page

484

Publication Date

9-1998

Abstract

The sensitivity of insect populations to climate is universally appreciated (Andrewartha and Birch 1954; Lawton 1995). Climate can also synchronize populations of conspecifics over regional scales when dynamics are driven by similar density-dependent processes—the Moran effect (Moran 1953; Ranta et al. 1995, 1997; Royama 1996). However, the possibility that climatic events can also synchronize populations of many species over large geographic scales is less well documented.

Recommended Citation

Hawkins, Bradford A. and Holyoak, Marcel, "Transcontinental Crashes of Insect Populations?" (1998). Aspen Bibliography. Paper 1259.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/aspen_bib/1259