Predation in Diversified Agroecosystems: Relations Between a Coccinellid Predator Coleomegilla maculata and Its Food
- 1 August 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Journal of Applied Ecology
- Vol. 22 (2) , 357-372
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2403170
Abstract
(1) A common prediction based on ecological theory is that natural populations of insect predators will be more abundant and effective in diverse plant assembla...This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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