Predator Abundance in Alfalfa Fields in Relation to Aphids, Within-Field Vegetation, and Landscape Matrix

By Norman C. Elliott, R. Kieckhefer, Gerald J. Michels, K. Giles. 2002

100 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. R. Isaacs
2. T. Tscharntke
3. F. Bianchi
4. D. Landis
5. A. Costamagna
6. C. Booij
7. C. Rodriguez-Saona
8. F. Menalled

In Insect Science

1. R. Isaacs
2. T. Tscharntke
3. D. Landis
4. F. Bianchi
5. A. Costamagna
6. F. Menalled
7. C. Booij
8. C. Rodriguez-Saona

In Plant Science

1. D. Landis
2. R. Isaacs
3. A. Costamagna
4. F. Bianchi
5. C. Booij
6. C. Rodriguez-Saona
7. M. Whitehouse
8. L. J. Wilson

Citations in the corpus

• Manipulating plant resources to enhance beneficial arthropods in agricultural landscapes (2005, background): “One of the more fascinating outcomes is that plant resources may be equally or more important in determining numbers and impacts of beneficial insects than such factors as farming system (organic vs. conventional) (Östman et al. 2001) or prey population density (Elliott et al. 2002).”
• A Comparison of Arthropod Communities in Transgenic Bt and Conventional Cotton in Australia (2005, background): “Damsel bugs are generalist predators (Snyder and Ives 2003) that may attack Lepidoptera larvae and eggs (Ehler 2004), but are also predators of aphids (Hesler et al. 2000, Elliott et al. 2002, Östman and Ives 2003) and spider mites (Wilson et al. 1998).”
• Mitigating the effects of insecticides on arthropod biological control at field and landscape scales (2014, background): “The distribution of these resources can have significant impacts on natural enemies (Hunter and Price, 1992; Elliott et al., 2002), with greater abundance and higher levels of biological control found in landscapes with greater proportion of natural habitat (Thies and Tscharntke, 1999).”
• Coccinellids in Biological Control (2012, unknown): “The fl oral composition of the surrounding landscape often explains a lot of observed variation in fi eld - to - fi eld coccinellid diversity and abundance (e.g. Elliott et al. 2002b ).”
• Sustainable pest regulation in agricultural landscapes: a review on landscape composition, biodiversity and natural pest control (2006, background): “…that were negatively correlated to patch diversity, wetlands, set-aside land (USDA Conservation Restoration Program), forest, landscape patchiness or pasture (Elliott et al. 2002a,b) and 20% reduced parasitism rates in armyworm larvae in complex versus simple landscapes (Menalled et al. 2003).”