Predators use volatiles to avoid prey patches with conspecifics

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 223-232

  Janssen, Arne ^a   Bruin, Jan ^a   Jacobs, Gerrit ^a   Schraag, Ruud ^a   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

foraging behaviour; olfactory searching; Phytoseiidae; predator distributions; semiochemicals

Indexed keywords

FORAGING; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; PATCH USE; VOLATILE CHEMICAL;

ACARI; PHYTOSEIULUS PERSIMILIS;

EID: 0030618140     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/6024     Document Type: Article

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