Host plant manipulation of natural enemies: Leaf domatia protect beneficial mites from insect predators

Oecologia

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 535-542

  Norton, Andrew P ^a,b   English Loeb, Greg ^a   Belden, Edward ^a,c  

^a New York State Agricultural Experiment Station   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^c HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES   (United States)

Author keywords

Intraguild predation; Microclimate humidity; Mutualism; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MITE; MUTUALISM; PREDATION;

ACARI; AMBLYSEIUS; AMBLYSEIUS ANDERSONI; ARTHROPODA; CHRYSOPERLA RUFILABRIS; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; COCCINELLIDAE; INSECTA; ORIUS INSIDIOSUS; ORTHOTYDEUS; ORTHOTYDEUS LAMBI; RIPARIA; VITIS RIPARIA; VITIS SP.;

EID: 0035041367     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420000556     Document Type: Article

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