Plant diversity affects behavior of generalist root herbivores, reduces crop damage, and enhances crop yield

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1135-1145

  Staudacher, Karin ^a   Schallhart, Nikolaus ^a   Thalinger, Bettina ^a   Wallinger, Corinna ^a   Juen, Anita ^a   Traugott, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agriotes; Maize; Molecular gut content analysis; Multiple trap cropping; Pest control; Stable isotope analysis; Wireworms

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROP DAMAGE; CROP YIELD; DIVERSITY INDEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HERBIVORE; MAIZE; MONOCULTURE; PEST CONTROL; PEST SPECIES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; CROP; HERBIVORY; INSECT; LARVA; MAIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; SOIL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; HERBIVORY; INSECTS; LARVA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; SOIL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84880180992     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0018.1     Document Type: Article

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