Additive effects of predator diversity on pest control caused by few interactions among predator species

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 362-371

  Roubinet, Eve ^a   Straub, Cory ^b   Jonsson, Tomas ^a   Staudacher, Karin ^c   Traugott, Michael ^c   Ekbom, Barbara ^a   Jonsson, Mattias ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b URSINUS COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Biocontrol; Chrysoperla carnea; Coccinella septempunctata; Field cage experiment; Molecular gut content analysis; Multiplex PCR; Pterostichus melanarius; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; APHID; BEETLE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CEREAL; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FACILITATION; INTRAGUILD PREDATION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; PREDATOR; PREY AVAILABILITY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WEED;

APHIDIDAE; CHRYSOPERLA CARNEA; COCCINELLA SEPTEMPUNCTATA; PTEROSTICHUS MELANARIUS;

EID: 84935757488     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/een.12188     Document Type: Article

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