Habitat and environmental factors influencing the control of migratory locusts (Locusta migratoria) with an entomopathogenic fungus (Metarhizium anisopliae)

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 136, Issue 2-3, 2001, Pages 223-236

  Scanlan, J C ^a   Grant, W E ^b   Hunter, D M ^c   Milner, R J ^d  

^a Robert Wicks Pest Animal Research Centre   (Australia)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Australian Government Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry   (Australia)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biopesticide; Locust control; Locusta migratoria; Metarhizium anisopliae; Simulation model

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; BIOCIDE; BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; COVER CROP; FUNGAL INFECTION; FUNGUS SPORE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; INSECT CONTROL; SIMULATION MODEL;

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNGAL DISEASE; LOCUST; TEMPERATURE; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 0035915597     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(00)00424-5     Document Type: Article

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