Higher-order predators and the regulation of insect herbivore populations

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 43, Issue , 1998, Pages 421-447

  Rosenheim, Jay A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Hyperparasitoid; Intraguild predation; Population regulation; Top down control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; INSECT; MICROBIOLOGY; NEMATODE; PARASITOLOGY; PLANT; PREDATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; INSECTS; NEMATODA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031888416     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.43.1.421     Document Type: Review

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