Secondary predation: Quantification of food chain errors in an aphid-spider-carabid system using monoclonal antibodies

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 2049-2057

  Harwood, J D ^a   Phillips, S W ^a,b   Sunderland, K D ^b   Symondson, W O C ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antigen decay rates; Food webs; Generalist predators; Intraguild predation; Lepthyphantes tenuis; Poecilus cupreus

Indexed keywords

DIGESTION; EPITOPE; FOOD CHAIN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; APHIDS; BEETLES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PROTEINS; SPIDERS; TIME FACTORS;

APHIDIDAE; ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; LEPTHYPHANTES; POECILUS CUPREUS; PTEROSTICHUS; PTEROSTICHUS CUPREUS; SITOBION AVENAE; TENUIPHANTES TENUIS;

EID: 0034850781     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0962-1083.2001.01349.x     Document Type: Article

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