Agricultural intensification and cereal aphid-parasitoid-hyperparasitoid food webs: Network complexity, temporal variability and parasitism rates

Oecologia

Volumn 170, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1099-1109

  Gagic, Vesna ^a   Hänke, Sebastian ^a   Thies, Carsten ^a   Scherber, Christoph ^a   Tomanović, Željko ^b   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Biodiversity; Biological control; Community structure

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; APHID; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BOTTOM-UP CONTROL; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; ORGANIC FARMING; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TROPHIC LEVEL;

APHIDIDAE;

EID: 84869095047     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2366-0     Document Type: Article

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