Title: Spiders – The Generalist Super Predators in Agro-Ecosystems
Abstract: Faced with the need to reduce pesticide usage on the world's crops and optimize natural biological control, a full investigation of the means by which spiders influence pest abundance is long overdue. Also, in recent years, there has been a realization by ecologists that components of agro-ecosystems are tractable to manipulation and that spiders are convenient model organisms. Consequently, there are a growing number of investigations in which spiders in agro-ecosystems are used as tools to gain fundamental insights into the role of generalist predators in community and ecosystem function.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-09-06
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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