Reverting Conservation Reserve Program Lands to Wheat and Livestock Production: Effects on Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Assemblages

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1323-1335

  French, B Wade ^a   Elliott, Norman C ^a   Berberet, Richard C ^a,b  

^a USDA ARS   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological control; Carabidae; Conservation Reserve Program; Insect predators; Tillage; Wheat

Indexed keywords

CARABIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0001325626     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ee/27.6.1323     Document Type: Article

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