Characteristics of successful natural enemies in models of biological control of insect pests
- 1 June 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 273 (5663), 513-519
- https://doi.org/10.1038/273513a0
Abstract
Biological control of insect pests was characterized by a persistent, strong reduction in the pest population following the introduction of a natural enemy [either parasites such as Hymenoptera and Diptera or, more rarely, predators]. Analysis of mathematical models suggested that differential exploitation of patches of the pest is a spatially heterogeneous environment provided the most likely mechanism to account for known successes.This publication has 43 references indexed in Scilit:
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