Influence of seed head-attacking biological control agents on spotted knapweed reproductive potential in western Montana over a 30-year period

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 510-519

  Story, Jim M ^a   Smith, Lincoln ^b   Corn, Janelle G ^a   White, Linda J ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Centaurea stoebe; Larinus spp.; Seed bank; Seed production; Urophora affinis

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; GALL INSECT; HERB; REPRODUCTIVE POTENTIAL; SEED BANK; SEED PRODUCTION; WEED CONTROL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CENTAUREA; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECT; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CENTAUREA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; INSECTS; MONTANA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SEEDS; TIME FACTORS;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CENTAUREA; CENTAUREA STOEBE; HEXAPODA; LARINUS; LARINUS MINUTUS; LARINUS OBTUSUS; UROPHORA; UROPHORA AFFINIS;

EID: 43649107349     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X(2008)37[510:IOSHBC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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