Exploiting predators for pest management: The need for sound ecological assessment

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 225-236

  Furlong, Michael J ^a   Zalucki, Myron P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biological control; Ecological scale; Ecosystem services; Integrated pest management; IPM; Lepidoptera; Pest suppression; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENTOMOLOGY; INSECT; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITOID; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 77953659270     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2010.00988.x     Document Type: Review

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