Consumption of aphids by spiders and the effect of additional prey: Evidence from microcosm experiments

BioControl

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 341-350

  Gavish Regev, Efrat ^a   Rotkopf, Ron ^a   Lubin, Yael ^a   Coll, Moshe ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aphididae; Araneae; Collembola; Erigoninae; Foraging; Generalist predators; Linyphiidae; Predator prey interactions; Theridiidae

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; APHID; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FORAGE; HERBIVORE; MICROCOSM; PEST SPECIES; SPIDER; VEGETATION; WHEAT;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

APHIDIDAE; ARANEAE; AVES; BATHYPHANTES; COLLEMBOLA; ENOPLOGNATHA; ERIGONINAE; HEMIPTERA; LINYPHIIDAE; LINYPHIINAE; RHOPALOSIPHUM PADI; THERIDIIDAE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 67349284055     PISSN: 13866141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10526-008-9170-0     Document Type: Article

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