Influence of intercropping canola or pea with barley on assemblages of ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 535-541

  Butts, R A ^a   Floate, K D ^a   David, M ^a   Blackshaw, R E ^a   Burnett, P A ^a  

^a LETHBRIDGE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Biological control; Canada; Diversity; Intercropping; Polyculture

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGROECOLOGY; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; INTERCROPPING; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMARA; BEMBIDION; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; INSECTA; PISUM; PISUM SATIVUM; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 0038270166     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-32.3.535     Document Type: Article

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