To be an intra-guild predator or a cannibal: Is prey quality decisive?

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 430-436

  Montserrat, Marta ^a   Janssen, Arne ^a   Magalhães, Sara ^a   Sabelis, Maurice W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Iphiseius degenerans; Juvenile survival; Neoseiulus cucumeris; Phytoseiidae; Prey preference

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CANNIBALISM; CONSPECIFIC; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; KIN RECOGNITION; MITE; PREY AVAILABILITY; RELATEDNESS;

ACARI; IPHISEIUS DEGENERANS; NEOSEIULUS CUCUMERIS; PHYTOSEIIDAE;

EID: 33748583241     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00804.x     Document Type: Article

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