Agrochemical use on banana plantations in Latin America: Perspectives on ecological risk

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 91-99

  Henriques, William ^a   Jeffers, Russel D ^a   Lacher Jr , Thomas E ^a,b   Kendall, Ronald J ^a  

^a Dept of Environmental Toxicology   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bananas; Biodiversity; Pesticides; Tropical ecotoxicology; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TROPICS; WILDLIFE;

EID: 0031022507     PISSN: 07307268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1897/1551-5028(1997)016<0091:AUOBPI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Review

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