Patterns in the abundance and distribution of ichneumonid parasitoids within and across habitat patches

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 473-483

  Fraser, Sally E M ^a   Dytham, Calvin ^a,b   Mayhew, Peter J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance occupancy; Aggregation; Biocontrol; Conservation; Distribution; Geographic range; Macroecology; Monitoring; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PARASITOID; PATCH DYNAMICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAP (EQUIPMENT);

HEXAPODA; ICHNEUMONIDAE;

EID: 49249096619     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2008.00992.x     Document Type: Article

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