Nutritional benefits of intraguild predation and cannibalism among generalist and specialist phytoseiid mites

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 473-480

  Schausberger, Peter ^a,b   Croft, Brian A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative food; Diet specialisation; Interspecific predation; Intraspecific predation; Nutrition; Oligophagy; Polyphagy; Predaceous mites

Indexed keywords

CANNIBALISM; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MITE; NUTRITION;

ACARI; AMBLYSEIUS; AMBLYSEIUS ANDERSONI; GALENDROMUS; GALENDROMUS OCCIDENTALIS; INVERTEBRATA; NEOSEIULUS CUCUMERIS; NEOSEIULUS FALLACIS; NEOSEIULUS LONGISPINOSUS; PHYTOSEIIDAE; PHYTOSEIULUS; PHYTOSEIULUS MACROPILIS;

EID: 0033668266     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2311.2000.00284.x     Document Type: Article

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