Predators exert top-down control of soybean aphid across a gradient of agricultural management systems

Ecological Applications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1619-1628

  Costamagna, Alejandro C ^a   Landis, Douglas A ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Aphid; Aphis glycines; Biological control; Coccinella septempunctata; Generalist predators; Harmonia axyridis; Invasive herbivore; Lady beetles; Michigan, USA; Orius insidiosus; Top down vs. bottom up effects

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGROECOLOGY; APHID; HERBIVORE; INVASIVE SPECIES; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS; POPULATION GROWTH; PREDATOR; TOP-DOWN CONTROL;

NORTH AMERICA;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS GLYCINES; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; GLYCINE MAX; HARMONIA AXYRIDIS; ORIUS INSIDIOSUS;

EID: 33747147754     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: 10510761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/1051-0761(2006)016[1619:PETCOS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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