An assessment of the impact of biological and chemical grasshopper control agents on ground-dwelling arthropods in Niger, based on presence/absence sampling

Crop Protection

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 323-339

  Peveling, R ^a   Attignon, S ^b   Langewald, J ^b   Ouambama, Z ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b PHMD IITA ^*  (Benin)

^c Centre AGRHYMET   (Niger)

Author keywords

Binary sampling; Environmental impact assessment; Grasshopper control; Metarhizium (flavoviride) anisopliae var. acridum; Non target arthropods

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; CHEMICAL CONTROL; GRASSHOPPER; SAMPLING;

NIGER;

EID: 0033152387     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0261-2194(99)00032-0     Document Type: Article

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