Claim · #6492921
Malacosoma disstria · herbivory · Populus tremuloides
herbivory · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“forest tent caterpillar significantly reduced the growth of the aspen”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
- Page
- 67
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Malacosoma disstria is a well-documented defoliator of Populus tremuloides; ~90% basal area growth loss after repeated heavy defoliation is consistent with published forest entomology literature.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Malacosoma disstria is a well-documented defoliator of Populus tremuloides; ~90% basal area growth loss after repeated heavy defoliation is consistent with published literature.”
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