Natural enemy diversity reduces temporal variability in wasp but not bee parasitism

Oecologia

Volumn 162, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 755-762

  Veddeler, Dorthe ^a   Tylianakis, Jason ^b   Tscharntke, Teja ^c   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^c  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Land use; Management; Pollinator; Predator

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD WEB; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LAND USE; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITISM; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM;

ECUADOR;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA;

EID: 77949275183     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-009-1491-x     Document Type: Article

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