Using Biodiversity for Pest Suppression in Urban Landscapes

Biodiversity and Insect Pests: Key Issues for Sustainable Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 293-308

  Shrewsbury, Paula M ^a   Leather, Simon R ^b  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alien plants on arthropod dynamics; Arthropods, top down regulation; Biodiversity in urban landscapes; Pest suppression biodiversity, urban landscapes; Reduced habitat biodiversity, disrupting trophic dynamics; Urban green space; Urban habitat biodiversity; Urban habitat manipulation, pest suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871176649     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118231838.ch18     Document Type: Chapter

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