Mortality and Diameter Growth in Mountain Ash Defoliated by Phasmatids

1 January 1967

journal article
research article
Published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Forestry

Vol. 31 (3) , 221-223
https://doi.org/10.1080/00049158.1967.10675444

Abstract

Mortality of mountain ash defoliated by phasmatids during 1960–61 and again in 1962–63 reached 83 per cent within two years of the second defoliation. For two years after the second defoliation, the surviving trees decreased in diameter; thereafter, positive increment was recorded but only for the least affected trees.

Keywords

MOUNTAIN ASH DEFOLIATED
DIAMETER GROWTH
SECOND DEFOLIATION
PHASMATIDS MORTALITY

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VARIATIONS IN SAPWOOD STARCH LEVELS IN SOME AUSTRALIAN FOREST SPECIES
Australian Forestry, 1965
A theory of phasmatid outbreak release.
Australian Journal of Zoology, 1965