Spillover of agriculturally subsidized predators as a potential threat to native insect herbivores in fragmented landscapes

Conservation Biology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1720-1729

  Rand, Tatyana A ^a,b   Louda, Svata M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fragmentation; Habitat loss; Landscape matrix; Spatial subsidies; Spillover predation; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; APHID; BEETLE; GENERALIST; GRASSLAND; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HERBIVORE; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL ENEMY; PREDATION;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; APHID; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; WILD ANIMAL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; APHIDS; BEETLES; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; POACEAE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR;

NEBRASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; INSECTA;

EID: 33845492832     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00507.x     Document Type: Article

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