Stage Sensitivity to Food Limitation for a Generalist Arthropod Predator, Pterostichus cupreus (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 863-869

  Bommarco, Riccardo ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Fecundity; Feeding rate; Food limitation; Foraging; Mortality; Overwintering

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; PTEROSTICHUS; PTEROSTICHUS CUPREUS;

EID: 0000160064     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.4.863     Document Type: Article

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