The formation of terrestrial food webs in glacier foreland: Evidence for the pivotal role of decomposer prey and intraguild predation

Biodiversity and Insect Pests Volume 174

Biodiversity and Insect Pests Volume 1741 (Key Issues for Sustainable Management) || The Role of Generalist Predators in Terrestrial Food Webs: Lessons for Agricultural Pest Management

✍ Gurr, Geoff M.; Wratten, Steve D.; Snyder, William E.; Read, Donna M. Y. 📂 Article 📅 2012 🏛 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 🌐 English ⚖ 159 KB

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at the local and landscape scales to check pest build-up. This book b