Optimal Foraging Behavior and Efficient Biological Control Methods

Behavioral Ecology of Insect Parasitoids: From Theoretical Approaches to Field Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-30

  Mills, Nick J ^a   Wajnberg, Éric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Demographic stochasticity; Insect parasitoids; Parasitoid aggregation; Parasitoids; Phytophagous species

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889291346     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696200.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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