Are the conservation of natural enemy biodiversity and biological control compatible goals?

Biological Control

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-237

  Straub, Cory S ^a   Finke, Deborah L ^b,c   Snyder, William E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Biological control; Complementarity; Conservation; Functional redundancy; Functional traits; Intraguild predation; Natural enemy; Niche; Predator; Prey

Indexed keywords

EID: 37749046599     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2007.05.013     Document Type: Article

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