Influence of landscape structure and farming practice on body condition and fecundity of wolf spiders

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 614-621

  Öberg, Sandra ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Annual crops; Conventional; Egg sac; Field size; Lycosidae; Offspring; Organic; Pardosa; Perennial crops; Residuals

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; LYCOSIDAE; PARDOSA;

EID: 69949104459     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2009.03.005     Document Type: Article

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