Tillage differentially affects the capture rate of pitfall traps for three species of carabid beetles

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 124, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 177-187

  Hatten, Timothy D ^a   Bosque Pérez, Nilsa A ^a   Johnson Maynard, Jodi ^a   Eigenbrode, Sanford D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Carabidae; Coleoptera; Conservation tillage; Mark release recapture; No till; Poecilus lucublandus; Poecilus scitulus; Pterostichus melanarius; Trapping biases

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CAPTURE METHOD; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; LEGUME; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MICROCLIMATE; PITFALL TRAP; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WHEAT; ZERO TILLAGE;

IDAHO; NORTH AMERICA; PALOUSE; UNITED STATES;

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; PISUM SATIVUM; POECILUS; POECILUS LUCUBLANDUS; POECILUS SCITULUS; PTEROSTICHUS MELANARIUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 34249061870     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00566.x     Document Type: Article

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