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  <dc:contributor>Floyd W. Weckerly</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>Raymond D. Semlitsch</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>Mark A. Ricca</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1996</dc:date>
  <dc:description>Few studies to date have investigated factors, other than mast crop size, that influence the dynamics of Curculio populations.W e examined the effects of varying levels of soil moisture (0.35, 0.4 and 0.5 g water/g soil) and temperature (8, 14 and 20 C) on over wintering survival of Curculio larvae collected from Quercus michauxii acorns. Survival of larvae, analyzed using log-linear analysis, was adversely affected by soil moisture but not by soil temperature. Larvae that overwinter in drier soil may have higher probabilities of successfully metamorphosing.</dc:description>
  <dc:format>application/pdf</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>10.2307/2426646</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>University of Notre Dame</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Effects of soil moisture and temperature on overwintering survival of Curculio larvae (Coleoptera : Curculionidae)</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
</oai_dc:dc>