Direct effects of tillage on the activity density of ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) weed seed predators

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1140-1146

  Shearin, A F ^a   Reberg Horton, S C ^b   Gallandt, E R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Carabidae; Ecological weed management; Ground beetles; Postdispersal predation

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY PATTERN; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; SEED PREDATION; TILLAGE; WEED CONTROL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; TIME;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEETLES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SEEDS; TIME FACTORS;

MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AGONUM MUELLERI; AMARA CUPREOLATA; ANIMALIA; ANISODACTYLUS MERULA; ARTHROPODA; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HARPALUS RUFIPES; INVERTEBRATA; PTEROSTICHUS MELANARIUS;

EID: 35648954683     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2007)36[1140:DEOTOT]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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