Desert Locust Control in Ecologically Sensitive Areas: Need for Guidelines

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Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 463-468

  Wiktelius, Staffan ^a   Ardö, Jonas ^b   Fransson, Thord ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Box 118 ^*  (Sweden)

^c SWEDISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL CONTROL; GUIDELINE; LOCUST; PESTICIDE; POLLUTION CONTROL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPRAY;

AFRICA;

ANIMALIA; AVES; INSECTA; RHIZOPHORACEAE; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 0344099631     PISSN: 00447447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1579/0044-7447-32.7.463     Document Type: Article

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23. We would like to thank Dave Finnegan, Edinburgh University, Joyce Magor, NRI, Eldad Tukahirwa, IUCN, James Everts and Wim Mullié, LOCUSTOX, and the Locust and Other Migratory Pests Group, FAO, for valuable discussions and/ or for making material available. This project was funded by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, Department of Natural Resources and Environment (Sida/NATUR).
24. First submitted 16 April 2002. Revised version received 17 Dec. 2002. Accepted for publication 20 Dec. 2002.