Soil Nematode Populations Beneath Faecal Pats from Grazing Cattle Treated with the Ivermectin Sustained-release Bolus or Fed the Nematophagous Fungus Duddingtonia flagrans to Control Nematode Parasites

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica - Section A: Animal Science

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 197-206

  Yeates, Gregor ^a   Dimander, Sten Olof ^b   Waller, Peter ^b   Höglund, Johan ^b  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bacterial feeding nematodes; Cephalobidae; Duddingtonia flagrans; Environmental impact; Ivermectin; Nutrient cycling; Pasture; Soil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BOS TAURUS; CEPHALOBIDAE; CEPHALOBUS; DUDDINGTONIA; DUDDINGTONIA FLAGRANS; FUNGI; NEMATODA; TYLENCHUS;

EID: 0346282879     PISSN: 09064702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09064700310012962     Document Type: Article

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