Natural enemy diversity and biological control: Making sense of the context-dependency

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 657-668

  Tylianakis, Jason M ^a   Romo, Cecilia M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Biodiversity; Ecosystem functioning; Habitat complexity; Heterogeneity; Insect; Intraguild predation; IPM; Management; Niche partitioning; Parasitoid; Pest

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPODA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78649442308     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2010.08.005     Document Type: Article

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