Habitat associations of Euphorbia and Aphthona species from Europe: Development of predictive models for natural enemy release with ordination analysis

Biological Control

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-17

  Nowierski, Robert M ^a   Zeng, Zheng ^a,b   Schroeder, Dieter ^a,c   Gassmann, André ^a,c   FitzGerald, Bryan C ^a   Cristofaro, Massimo ^a,d  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b National Crop Insurance Services   (United States)

^c CABI   (Switzerland)

^d ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aphthona cyparissiae; Aphthona czwalinae; Aphthona lacertosa; Aphthona nigriscutis; Aphthona pygmaea; Aphthona venustula; Aphthona violacea; Chrysomelidae; Euphorbia cyparissias; Euphorbia lucida; Euphorbia seguieriana; Euphorbia virgata; Euphorbiaceae; Habitat associations; Insect plant associations; Ordination analyses

Indexed keywords

ALTICINI; APHTHONA; APHTHONA CYPARISSIAE; APHTHONA CZWALINAE; APHTHONA LACERTOSA; APHTHONA NIGRISCUTIS; APHTHONA PYGMAEA; APHTHONA VENUSTULA; APHTHONA VIOLACEA; CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIA CYPARISSIAS; EUPHORBIA ESULA; EUPHORBIA ESULA URALENSIS; EUPHORBIA LUCIDA; EUPHORBIA SEGUIERIANA; EUPHORBIA VIRGATA; EUPHORBIACEAE; INSECTA; POACEAE; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS);

EID: 0036150673     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bcon.2001.0984     Document Type: Article

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