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Science 1 November 2002:
Vol. 298. no. 5595, pp. 973 - 974
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078707
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Perspectives

ECOLOGY:
On the Crest of a Population Wave

Esa Ranta, Per Lundberg, Veijo Kaitala, Nils Chr. Stenseth

Understanding the population highs and lows of periodic outbreaks of insect pests should contribute to more efficient control measures. As Ranta and colleagues discuss in their Perspective, a new modeling approach (Bjørnstad et al.) has accurately predicted the direction and speed of traveling waves of larch budmoth outbreaks, which have defoliated large areas of larch forest in the European Alps.

E. Ranta and V. Kaitala are in the Department of Ecology and Systematics, FIN-00014, University of Helsinki, Finland. P. Lundberg is at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. N. Chr. Stenseth is in the Department of Zoology, University of Oslo, Blindern 0316, Norway. E-mail: esa.ranta{at}helsinki.fi

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Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)