Response of generalist and specialist insect herbivores to landscape spatial structure

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 185-197

  Jonsen, Ian D ^a,b   Fahrig, Lenore ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Arthropods; Diversity; Farmland; Habitat patch; Isolation; Landscape pattern; Leafhoppers; Scale; Weevils

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CICADELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; FABACEAE; HOMOPTERA;

ALFALFA; HERBIVORY; INSECT HERBIVORE; LANDSCAPE PATTERN;

EID: 0031474492     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007961006232     Document Type: Article

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