Areawide management of the cotton boll weevil: Use of a spatio-temporal model in augmentative biological control

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 151-164

  Legaspi Jr , B C ^a   Allen, J C ^b   Brewster, C C ^b   Morales Ramos, J A ^a   King, E G ^a  

^a KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthonomus grandis; Catolaccus grandis; Spatial model; Spatio temporal model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MODELING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345726028     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(98)00060-X     Document Type: Article

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