The window of vulnerability and its effect on relative parasitoid abundance

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 128-140

  Briggs, Cheryl J ^a   Latto, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galls; Parasitoids; Rhopalomyia californica; Window of vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; RHOPALOMYIA CALIFORNICA; CECIDOMYIIDAE; DIPTERA;

HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; VULNERABILITY;

EID: 0030448477     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.1996.tb01179.x     Document Type: Article

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