Data_Sheet_1_Biological Control Success of a Pasture Pest: Has Its Parasitoid Lost Its Functional Mojo?.pdf

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Data_Sheet_1_Biological Control Success of a Pasture Pest: Has Its Parasitoid Lost Its Functional Mojo?.pdf

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Sustainable and integrated pest management often involves insect parasitoids. However, the effectiveness of parasitoids biocontrol has often failed, frequently for obscure reasons. A parasitoid's success is partly due to its behavioral response to pest density, i.e. its consumer functional response. For many years in New Zealand, a braconid parasitoid, Microctonus hyperodae successfully suppressed a severe ryegrass weevil pest, Listronotus bonariensis. However, there is now evidence that this...

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14 Dec, 2018

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Federico Tomasetto / Paula Casanovas / Samuel N. Brandt / Stephen L. Goldson

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https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_Sheet_1_Biological_Control_Success_of_a_Pasture_Pest_H...

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attack rates / host density / invertebrate species / predator-prey interaction / natural enemy / weevil / Ecological Physiology / Conservation and Biodiversity / Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology) / Population Ecology / Terrestrial Ecology / Ecology / Invasive Species Ecology / Evolutionary Biology / Freshwater Ecology / Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology) / Behavioural Ecology / Landscape Ecology

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