A landscape view of cereal aphid parasitoid dynamics reveals sensitivity to farm- and region-scale vegetation structure

European Journal of Entomology

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 503-511

  Brewer, Michael J ^a   Noma, Takuji ^a   Elliott, Norman C ^b   Kravchenko, Alexandra N ^a   Hild, Ann L ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA ARS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphelinidae; Aphididae; Braconidae; Diuraphis noxia; Grasslands; Landscape ecology; Parasitoids; Scale; Seasonality; Sunflower; Wheat

Indexed keywords

APHID; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROP PEST; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITOID; PLANT COMMUNITY; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WHEAT;

GREAT PLAINS; NORTH AMERICA;

APHELINIDAE; APHIDIDAE; BRACONIDAE; DIURAPHIS NOXIA; HELIANTHUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 66749146694     PISSN: 12105759     EISSN: 18028829     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14411/eje.2008.066     Document Type: Article

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