Reproduction and energy reserves of a predatory carabid beetle relative to agroecosystem complexity

Ecological Applications

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 846-853

  Bommarco, Riccardo ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Fecundity; Feeding rate; Food limitation; Habitat quality; Landscape structure; Organic farming; Pest management; Pterostichus cupreus

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; PTEROSTICHUS; PTEROSTICHUS CUPREUS;

EID: 0031828062     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1998)008[0846:RAEROA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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