Subsidy from the detrital food web, but not microhabitat complexity, affects the role of generalist predators in an aboveground herbivore food web

Oikos

Volumn 117, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 494-500

  Birkhofer, Klaus ^a   Wise, David H ^b   Scheu, Stefan ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FOOD WEB; GENERALIST; HERBIVORY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECTICIDE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MICROHABITAT; ORGANIC FARMING; PREDATION; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPIDER; WEED; WHEAT;

APHIDIDAE; ARANEAE; CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; COLLEMBOLA; ISOTOMIDAE; STAPHYLINIDAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 41149150443     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2008.16361.x     Document Type: Article

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