Implications for the use of diflubenzuron to reduce arthropod populations inhabiting evaporation ponds of the San Joaquin Valley, California

Bulletin of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 702-708

  McCasland, C S ^a,c   Cooper, R J ^a,d   Barnum, D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFLUBENZURON;

ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; EPIDERMIS; EVAPORATION; GROWTH REGULATION; MOLTING; NONHUMAN; PESTICIDE SPRAYING; STARVATION; WATER POLLUTION;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPODS; CALIFORNIA; DIFLUBENZURON; ECOSYSTEM; HEMIPTERA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; PEST CONTROL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0031960052     PISSN: 00074861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001289900683     Document Type: Article

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