Changes in agricultural land use can explain population decline in a ladybeetle species in the Czech Republic: Evidence from a process-based spatially explicit model

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1541-1554

  Bianchi, Felix J J A ^a,b   Honěk, Alois ^c   Van Der Werf, Wopke ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aphid; Coccinella septempunctata; Landscape composition; Modelling; SEPM; Spatial scale; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

APHID; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST PLANT; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; PREY AVAILABILITY; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; CZECH REPUBLIC; EURASIA; EUROPE;

APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA;

EID: 35848958385     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-007-9145-z     Document Type: Article

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