Linking a predator's foraging behavior with its effects on herbivore population suppression

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 3362-3372

  Rosenheim, Jay A ^a   Glik, Tobias E ^a   Goeriz, Rachel E ^a,b   Rämert, Birgitta ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biological control; Food webs; Foraging behavior; Generalist predator; Higher order predation; Indirect effects; Intraguild predation; Trophic cascades

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FOOD WEB; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; POPULATION REGULATION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; TROPHIC CASCADE;

ACARI; ARANEAE; ARTHROPODA; CARICA; CARICA PAPAYA; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; NESTICODES; NESTICODES RUFIPES; STETHORUS; STETHORUS SIPHONULUS; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS; TETRANYCHUS CINNABARINUS; THERIDIIDAE;

EID: 11844279163     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0825     Document Type: Article

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