Biological controls of intensive agroecosystems: Wanderer spiders in the Langa Astigiana

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 157-164

  Venturino, Ezio ^a   Isaia, Marco ^b   Bona, Francesca ^b   Chatterjee, Samrat ^a   Badino, Guido ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo   (Italy)

Author keywords

Holling type II, Hopf bifurcation; Population models; Predator prey; Spiders

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE;

EID: 44349176994     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.10.003     Document Type: Article

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