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Parasitoid Community Structure

Implications for Biological Control in Agricultural Landscapes

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Interchanges of Insects between Agricultural and Surrounding Landscapes

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Modern agricultural landscapes range in structure from the highly simplified containing little in the way of non-crop habitat, to the very complex, containing small patches of cropland nested within extensive and interconnected areas of non-crop vegetation. This diversity in the structure of agricultural landscapes can have strong impacts on the diversity, abundance and effectiveness of insect natural enemies that occur within crops (Szentkriralyi & Kozar, 1991; Kruess & Tscharntke, 1994). Understanding how these landscape features affect the interactions between crops, pests and their natural enemies is a complex problem that can significantly impact the success or failure of insect biological control (Landis, 1994).

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Charleston, Charleston, SC, USA

    Paul C. Marino

  2. Department of Entomology and Center for Integrated Plant Systems, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, USA

    Douglas A. Landis

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Marino, P.C., Landis, D.A. (2000). Parasitoid Community Structure. In: Ekbom, B., Irwin, M.E., Robert, Y. (eds) Interchanges of Insects between Agricultural and Surrounding Landscapes. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1913-1_11

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