Enhancing rape pollen beetle parasitism within sown flower fields along a landscape complexity gradient

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-179

  Scheid, Barbara E ^a   Thies, Carsten ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agri environment scheme; Biological control; Canola; Herbivory; Meligethes aeneus; Parasitism rate; Sinapis alba; Tersilochus heterocerus

Indexed keywords

AVES; BRASSICA NAPUS; BRASSICA NAPUS VAR. NAPUS; COLEOPTERA; MELIGETHES; MELIGETHES AENEUS; SINAPIS; SINAPIS ALBA; TERSILOCHUS HETEROCERUS;

EID: 79954580884     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2010.00516.x     Document Type: Article

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