Host density drives spatial variation in parasitism of the alfalfa weevil, hypera postica, across dryland and irrigated alfalfa cropping systems

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 116-122

  Rand, Tatyana A ^a  

^a USDA ARS Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

density dependence; disturbance; natural enemy; population; spatial variation

Indexed keywords

ALFALFA; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CROPPING PRACTICE; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; FLOODING; HABITAT TYPE; HERBIVORE; IRRIGATION; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; PEST SPECIES; SPATIAL VARIATION; WASP;

ALFALFA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HERBIVORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IRRIGATION (AGRICULTURE); LARVA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES; WASP; WEEVIL;

AGRICULTURAL IRRIGATION; ANIMALS; HERBIVORY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; MONTANA; NORTH DAKOTA; POPULATION DENSITY; WASPS; WEEVILS;

MONTANA; NORTH DAKOTA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873537591     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN12266     Document Type: Article

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