Predator community structure and trophic linkage strength to a focal prey

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 3790-3798

  Lundgren, Jonathan G ^a   Fergen, Janet K ^a  

^a NORTH CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

biological control; Diabrotica virgifera; predator abundance; predator diversity; prey defence; soil food web

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTHROPOD; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA; DNA SEQUENCE; FOOD CHAIN; HISTOLOGY; MAIZE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PREDATOR ABUNDANCE; PREDATOR DIVERSITY; PREY DEFENCE; SOIL; SOIL FOOD WEB; STOMACH JUICE;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA; PREDATOR ABUNDANCE; PREDATOR DIVERSITY; PREY DEFENCE; SOIL FOOD WEB;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; BEETLES; FOOD CHAIN; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84904615968     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12700     Document Type: Conference Paper

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