INVASIVENESS OF AN EXOTIC GALL WASP IS INFLUENCED BY INTERACTIONS WITH EXOTIC AND ENDEMIC ORGANISMS

American chestnut was once a crucial component of North American forests, but it was functionally eliminated by the introduction of the chestnut blight fungus. Chestnut is recently experiencing resurgence, but the introduced Asian chestnut gall wasp, a specialist herbivore, threatens chestnut recove...

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Main Author: Graziosi, Ignazio
Format: Others
Published: UKnowledge 2015
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Online Access:http://uknowledge.uky.edu/entomology_etds/15
http://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1014&context=entomology_etds