Landscape-scale pest suppression is mediated by timing of predator arrival

Ecological Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1114-1130

  Costamagna, Alejandro C ^a   Venables, William N ^a   Schellhorn, Nancy A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Aphis gossypii; Conservation biological control; Ecosystem services; Field colonization; Generalist predators; Landscape complexity; Landscape diversity; Natural enemies; Predation; Spatial and temporal scales; Spatiotemporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ALFALFA; APHID; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; NATURAL ENEMY; PEST CONTROL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA;

APHIDIDAE; APHIS GOSSYPII; MEDICAGO SATIVA;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL;

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; PROCEDURES; SPIDER; TIME;

AGROCHEMICALS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; QUEENSLAND; SPIDERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84930038471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19395582     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/14-1008.1     Document Type: Article

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