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Myers JH, Campbell BJ. Distribution and dispersal in populations capable of resource depletion : A field study on Cinnabar moth. Oecologia. 1976;24(1):7-20doi: 10.1007/BF00545484.
Myers, J. H., & Campbell, B. J. (1976). Distribution and dispersal in populations capable of resource depletion : A field study on Cinnabar moth. Oecologia, 24(1), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00545484
Myers, Judith H, and Campbell, Barbara J. "Distribution and dispersal in populations capable of resource depletion : A field study on Cinnabar moth." Oecologia vol. 24,1 (1976): 7-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00545484
Myers JH, Campbell BJ. Distribution and dispersal in populations capable of resource depletion : A field study on Cinnabar moth. Oecologia. 1976 Mar;24(1):7-20. doi: 10.1007/BF00545484. PMID: 28308850.
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Oecologia. 1976 Mar;24(1):7-20. doi: 10.1007/BF00545484.

Distribution and dispersal in populations capable of resource depletion : A field study on Cinnabar moth.

Oecologia

Judith H Myers, Barbara J Campbell

Affiliations

  1. Institute of Animal Resource Ecology, University of British Columbia, 2075 Westbrook Place, V6T 1W5, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
  2. Department of Plant Science, University of British Columbia, 2075 Westbrook Place, V6T 1W5, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

PMID: 28308850 DOI: 10.1007/BF00545484

Abstract

Theoretical predictions from a simulation model of insect distributions and dispersal among isolated food plants have been tested with data gathered from 13 Cinnabar moth populations. Agreement with the predictions was good. Egg batch size was equal to or slightly larger than the number which could be supported by the average food plant. Egg batch distribution was more clumped when density was high and when egg batch size was small relative to food plant size. The tendency for larval dispersal was lower in populations in areas where plants were widely spaced. These findings indicate that the Cinnabar moth has the genetic or phenotypic flexibility to adjust egg batch size, egg distribution, and larval dispersal to characteristics of the habitat. A hypothesized model is proposed to describe the interactions between larval dispersal, food plant response to defoliation, and population fluctuations for the Cinnabar moth and its food plant, tansy ragwort.

References

  1. Oecologia. 1976 Dec;23 (4):255-269 - PubMed
  2. Oecologia. 1971 Mar;7(1):26-67 - PubMed
  3. Acta Biotheor. 1968;18(1):165-94 - PubMed

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