Using models to estimate parasitoid impacts on nontarget host abundance

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 941-948

  Barlow, Nigel D ^a   Barratt, Barbara I P ^b   Ferguson, Colin M ^b   Barron, M C ^a  

^a AGRESEARCH LTD   (New Zealand)

^b INVERMAY AGRICULTURAL CENTRE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Host abundance; Microctonus aethiopoides Loan; Modeling; Nontarget parasitism

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; NONTARGET ORGANISM;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

BRACONIDAE; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; IRENIMUS; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MICROCTONUS; MICROCTONUS AETHIOPOIDES; NICAEANA; SITONA DISCOIDEUS;

EID: 4344642273     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.4.941     Document Type: Article

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