Cascading indirect effects in a coffee agroecosystem: Effects of parasitic phorid flies on ants and the coffee berry borer in a high-shade and low-shade habitat

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 581-588

  Pardee, Gabriella L ^a   Philpott, Stacy M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Azteca instabilis; nonconsumptive effects; Pseudacteon; trait meditated interactions

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ANT; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; COFFEE; COMPLEXITY; FLY; HABITAT TYPE; PARASITE; PEST SPECIES; SHADING; TROPHIC LEVEL;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; COFFEE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FLY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; MEXICO; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SUNLIGHT; WEEVIL;

ANIMALS; ANTS; COFFEA; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MEXICO; SUNLIGHT; WEEVILS;

AZTECA; AZTECA INSTABILIS; COFFEA ARABICA; FORMICIDAE; HYPOTHENEMUS HAMPEI; PHORIDAE; PSEUDACTEON (DIPTERAN FLY);

EID: 79958726488     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11015     Document Type: Article

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