Olive fruit fly (Bactrocera oleae) population dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean: influence of exogenous uncertainty on a Monophagous Frugivorous insect

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Ordano, Mariano Andrés, Engelhard, Izhar, Rempoulakis, Polychronis, Nemny Lavy, Esther, Blum, Moshe, Yasin, Sami, Lensky, Itamar M., Papadopoulos, Nikos T., Nestel, David
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library Of Science
• Subjects: Population ecology; Population dynamics; Agroecology; Integrated Pest Management; Climate effects; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.6; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4.5; https://purl.org/becyt/ford/4; Argentina; Tucumán; North Atlantic; North Atlantic oscillation
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11336/12710

Despite of the economic importance of the olive fly (Bactrocera oleae) and the large amount of biological and ecological studies on the insect, the factors driving its population dynamics (i.e., population persistence and regulation) had not been analytically investigated until the present study. Sp...