Individual variation in oviposition preference, and its interaction with larval performance in an insect predator

Oecologia

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 405-411

  Sadeghi, Hussein ^a   Gilbert, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Individual variation; Predators; Preference performance interaction; Syrphidae

Indexed keywords

INSECT; OVIPOSITION; PREDATOR;

APHIS FABAE; APHIS SAMBUCI; EPISYRPHUS BALTEATUS;

EID: 0032921574     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420050742     Document Type: Article

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