A5004022979- Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
- Plant and animal studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Insect Pest Control Strategies
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
- Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Agronomic Practices and Intercropping Systems
- Wastewater Treatment and Nitrogen Removal
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
- Insect Pheromone Research and Control
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Entomological Studies and Ecology
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- Evolution and Genetic Dynamics
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Microbial Fuel Cells and Bioremediation
Netherlands Institute of Ecology
2014-2023
Wageningen University & Research
2011-2022
Institute of Entomology
2002-2020
Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences
1992-2017
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2009
Advisory Board Company (United States)
2009
University of San Francisco
2009
United States Department of Agriculture
1990
Agricultural Research Service
1990
Leiden University
1980-1984
With a growing world population and increasingly demanding consumers, the production of sufficient protein from livestock, poultry, fish represents serious challenge for future. Approximately 1,900 insect species are eaten worldwide, mainly in ...Read More
ABSTRACT. A new type of airflow olfactometer is described, and results given experiments using it to measure behavioural olfactory responses hymenopterous parasitoids. Compared with Y‐tube olfactometers shows several advantages. In its exposure chamber four separate abutting odour fields are presented so that the test insect can readily enter re‐enter them. More than one (or different concentrations odour) be tested at same time, thereby providing complex preference situations. The various...
Summary Plants and insects are part of a complex multitrophic environment, in which they closely interact. However, most the studies have been focused mainly on bi‐tritrophic above‐ground subsystems, hindering our understanding processes that affect interactions more realistic framework. We studied whether root herbivory by fly Delia radicum can influence development leaf feeder Pieris brassicae , its parasitoid Cotesia glomerata hyperparasitoid Lysibia nana through changes primary secondary...
Abstract Fitness, defined as the per capita rate of increase a genotype with reference to population carrying associated genes, is concept used by biologists describe how well an individual performs in population. Fitness rarely measured directly and resort proxies more easily but varying connection fitness. Size, progeny survival, developmental are most common literature parasitoid The importance varies between papers looking at evolutionary theories those assessing ecological applications....
Foraging parasitoids may use stimuli that are derived from their host or the food of host, often plants. But how usable 2nd and 1st trophic level what is relative importance in parasitoid foraging? It argued foraging facing a reliability-detectability problem: host-derived most reliable indicating presence, accessibility suitability but they generally hard to detect. Plant stimuli, on other hand, easier detect arc less indicators. Parasitoids have evolved different non-exclusive strategies...
Plants respond to herbivory with the emission of induced plant volatiles. These volatiles may attract parasitic wasps (parasitoids) that attack herbivores. Although in this sense has been hypothesized be beneficial plant, it is still debated whether also case under natural conditions because other organisms such as herbivores emitted One important group organisms, enemies parasitoids, hyperparasitoids, not included debate little known about their foraging behaviour. Here, we address...
It is widely reported that plants emit volatile compounds when they are attacked by herbivorous insects, which may be used parasitoids and predators to locate their host or prey. The study of herbivore‐induced plant volatiles role in mediating interactions between plants, herbivores natural enemies have been primarily based on aboveground systems, generally ignoring the potential above belowground infochemical‐ food webs. This examines whether herbivory Delia radicum feeding roots Brassica...
Journal Article Variations in Parasitoid Foraging Behavior: Essential Element of a Sound Biological Control Theory Get access W. J. Lewis, Lewis 1Insect Biology and Population Management Research Laboratory, USDA–ARS, P.O. Box 748, Tifton, Ga. 31793 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Louise E. M. Vet, Vet 2Department Entomology, Wageningen Agricultural University, 8031, 6700 EH Wageningen, The Netherlands H. Tumlinson, Tumlinson 3USDA–ARS, 14565,...
"Host-Habitat Location Through Olfactory Cues By Leptopilina Cla Vipes (Hartig) (Hym.: Eucoilidae), a Parasitoid of Fungivorous Drosophila: the Influence Conditioning" published on 01 Jan 1982 by Brill.
Intraspecific variation in plants plays a major role the composition and diversity of associated insect community. Resistance traits are likely candidates mediating community composition. However, it is debated whether total concentrations chemical compounds or specific determine herbivore resistance, how among plant genotypes turn affects To study affecting community, we used cultivated Brassica oleracea. The cultivars differ qualitatively glucosinolate profile, i.e., foliar different...
The mechanisms through which trophic interactions between species are indirectly mediated by distant members in a food web have received increasing attention the field of ecology multitrophic interactions. Scarcely studied aspects include effects varying plant chemistry on herbivore immune defences against parasitoids. We investigated constitutive and herbivore-induced variation nutritional quality wild cultivated populations cabbage (Brassica oleracea) ability small white Pieris rapae...
Abstract In recent years, the production of pellets derived from forestry biomass to replace coal for electricity generation has been increasing, with over 10 million tonnes traded internationally—primarily between United States and Europe but an increasing trend Asia. Critical this trade is classification woody as ‘renewable energy’ thus eligible public subsidies. However, much scientific study on net effect suggests that it having opposite expected renewable energy, by atmospheric levels...