It includes the biophysical and societal causes and consequences of landscape heterogeneity. A trophic level is one made up of organisms whose food is obtained from plants by the same number of steps. An overall concept accepted by most people because of its effectiveness in explaining a complex process, idea or set of data. An insect that lives in its immature stages in or on another insect, which it kills after completing its own feeding. Any agent, especially a microorganism, capable of causing disease.
Protease is an enzyme that digests protein.
An organism that feeds on dead organic matter. Any class of substances produced by organisms, especially insects, that participates in the regulation of their behavior in such activities as aggregation of both sexes, sexual stimulation and trail following. Any compound with an isoprenoid structure similar to that of terpene hydrocarbons. Terpene is a moderately toxic, flammable unsaturated hydrocarbon liquid found in essential oils and plant oleoresins, used as an intermediate for camphor and menthol.