Variable effects of a generalist parasitoid on a biocontrol seed predator and its target weed

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 20-34

  Swope, Sarah M ^a,b,d   Satterthwaite, William H ^c  

^a WESTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Centaurea solstitialis; Eustenopus villosus; Individual based model; Invasive; Seed predation; Spatially explicit; Trophic cascade

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; COEXISTENCE; GENERALIST; GROWTH RATE; HERB; INVASIVE SPECIES; NATURAL ENEMY; SEED PREDATION; TROPHIC CASCADE; WEED CONTROL;

ACARI; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CENTAUREA; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; WEED; WEEVIL;

ACARI; ANIMALS; CENTAUREA; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT WEEDS; SEEDS; WEEVILS;

CALIFORNIA; CENTRAL VALLEY [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

CENTAUREA SOLSTITIALIS; EUSTENOPUS VILLOSUS; PYEMOTES TRITICI;

EID: 84858665550     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-2120.1     Document Type: Article

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