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Response to Leslie M. McDonough

Response to Leslie M. McDonough 1222 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS RESPONSE BY D. M. SUCKLING AND K. G. McNAUGHTON In his second letter, Dr. McDonough challenges both our experimental results and our interpretation of those results, offering instead the model described in his first letter. We reject both his challenges and his model. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS 1223 Firstly, Dr. McDonough claims that our experimental system was flawed because our Shin Etsu polyethylene dispensers were operated in the initial, desaturation phase of their release. This is not true, either in the laboratory or the field experiments. We are well aware of the higher rates of pheromone release in this initial phase; we mentioned it in our paper, and we avoided it in our experiments. Pheromone release from Shin Etsu dispensers was found to be independent of wind speed after the initial desaturation phase was complete. During the initial phase, by contrast, we expect that the rate of pheromone release would depend on wind speed. This is because the pheromone is, initially, readily available at the outer surface of the dispenser and only the wind-speed- dependent conductance of the boundary layer would limit loss. Such a depen- dence would diminish and become undetectable during the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Chemical Ecology Springer Journals

Response to Leslie M. McDonough

Suckling, D.; McNaughton, K.
Journal of Chemical Ecology , Volume 23 (5) – Sep 13, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 1997 by Plenum Publishing Corporation
Subject
Life Sciences; Physical Chemistry; Agriculture; Ecology; Biological Microscopy
ISSN
0098-0331
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1573-1561
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10.1023/B:JOEC.0000006622.04730.a9
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1222 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS RESPONSE BY D. M. SUCKLING AND K. G. McNAUGHTON In his second letter, Dr. McDonough challenges both our experimental results and our interpretation of those results, offering instead the model described in his first letter. We reject both his challenges and his model. LETTERS TO THE EDITORS 1223 Firstly, Dr. McDonough claims that our experimental system was flawed because our Shin Etsu polyethylene dispensers were operated in the initial, desaturation phase of their release. This is not true, either in the laboratory or the field experiments. We are well aware of the higher rates of pheromone release in this initial phase; we mentioned it in our paper, and we avoided it in our experiments. Pheromone release from Shin Etsu dispensers was found to be independent of wind speed after the initial desaturation phase was complete. During the initial phase, by contrast, we expect that the rate of pheromone release would depend on wind speed. This is because the pheromone is, initially, readily available at the outer surface of the dispenser and only the wind-speed- dependent conductance of the boundary layer would limit loss. Such a depen- dence would diminish and become undetectable during the

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Published: Sep 13, 2004

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