Does agricultural landscape structure affect parasitism and parasitoid diversity?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 634-641

  Menalled, Fabián D ^a   Marino, Paul C ^b   Gage, Stuart H ^a   Landis, Douglas A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Alternate hosts; Extra field vegetation; Landscape structure; Parasitism; Parasitoid diversity; Pseudaletia unipuncta; Spatial replication

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOLETIA UNIPUNCTA;

EID: 0033135873     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(1999)009[0634:DALSAP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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