Colonisation of sub-Antarctic Marion Island by a non-indigenous aphid parasitoid Aphidius matricariae (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

Polar Biology

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1195-1201

  Lee, J E ^a   Slabber, S ^a   Jansen Van Vuuren, B ^a   Van Noort, S ^b   Chown, S L ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b IZIKO SOUTH AFRICAN MUSEUM   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; APHID; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; COLONIZATION; DEFINITIVE HOST; GENETIC MARKER; INVASIVE SPECIES; PARASITOID; TROPHIC STRUCTURE; VASCULAR PLANT;

AFRICA; AGULHAS PLAIN; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MARION ISLAND; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

APHIDIDAE; APHIDIUS; APHIDIUS MATRICARIAE; ARTHROPODA; BRACONIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; TRACHEOPHYTA;

EID: 34447298332     PISSN: 07224060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00300-007-0277-z     Document Type: Article

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