Biological Control of Cereal Aphids in North America and Mediating Effects of Host Plant and Habitat Manipulations

Annual Review of Entomology

Volumn 49, Issue , 2004, Pages 219-242

  Brewer, M J ^a   Elliott, N C ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA ARS   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical biological control; Conservation biological control; Landscape diversity; Plant diversity; Tritrophic interactions

Indexed keywords

APHID; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITOID; PREDATOR;

ANIMAL; APHID; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CEREAL; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NORTH AMERICA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ANIMALS; APHIDS; CEREALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; NORTH AMERICA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

NORTH AMERICA;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; DIURAPHIS NOXIA; HEMIPTERA; POACEAE; SCHIZAPHIS GRAMINUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 1042267922     PISSN: 00664170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.ento.49.061802.123149     Document Type: Review

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