Effects of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis on black flies and nontarget macroinvertebrates and fish in a large river

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 910-930

  Jackson, John K ^a   Horwitz, Richard J ^b   Sweeney, Bernard W ^a  

^a STROUD WATER RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PESTICIDE;

BIOPESTICIDE; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; NONTARGET ORGANISM; PEST SPECIES; ZOOBENTHOS;

ANIMAL FOOD; BODY GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FIELD EXPERIMENT; GROWTH RATE; MICROBIAL PEST CONTROL; POPULATION DISPERSAL; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; TAXON; TIME;

UNITED STATES;

BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR ISRAELENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHIRONOMIDAE; CHIRONOMUS THUMMI; DIPTERA; JENNINGSI GROUP; RHEOTANYTARSUS; SIMULIIDAE; SIMULIUM JENNINGSI; SIMULIUM NIGRICOXUM;

EID: 0036712026     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2002)131<0910:EOBTIO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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