Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Abundance, Larval Food and Parasitism of a Spider-Hunting Wasp

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Coudrain, Valérie ^a,b,c   Herzog, Felix ^a   Entling, Martin H ^c  

^a AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; HABITAT SELECTION; HABITAT USE; HYMENOPTERA; NEST PREDATION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPIDER; TRYPOXYLAN FIGULUS; UPREGULATION; WASP;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; LARVA; SPIDERS; WASPS;

EID: 84875046605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059286     Document Type: Article

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