Can generalist predators be effective biocontrol agents?

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 47, Issue , 2002, Pages 561-594

  Symondson, W O C ^a   Sunderland, K D ^a   Greenstone, M H ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conservation biological control; Generalists versus specialists; Habitat manipulation; Polyphagous predators; Predation theory

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; GENERALIST; PREDATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PREDATION; REVIEW;

ANIMAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0036006843     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.47.091201.145240     Document Type: Review

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