Effects of Winter Cover Crops on the Soil Surface Invertebrate Community

Annual Proceedings Soil and Crop Science Society of Florida

Volumn 62, Issue , 2003, Pages 77-82

  Tremelling, M J ^a   McSorley, R ^a   Gallaher, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; AVENA; AVENA SATIVA; CICADELLIDAE; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; LUPINUS; LUPINUS ANGUSTIFOLIUS; MIRIDAE; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); SECALE CEREALE; THYSANOPTERA; TRIFOLIUM; TRIFOLIUM INCARNATUM; TRITICUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; VICIA; VICIA VILLOSA; VILLOSA;

EID: 0347604909     PISSN: 00964522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (15)

1. All, J. N., and G. J. Musick. 1986. Management of vertebrate and invertebrate pests. p. 347-388. In M. A. Sprague and G. B. Triplett (ed.). No tillage and surface-tillage agriculture. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
2. Altieri, M. A., and L. L. Schmidt. 1985. Cover crop manipulation in Northern California orchards and vineyards: effects on arthropod communities. Biol. Agric. Hort. 3:1-24.
3. Anonymous. 2002. Florida Automated Weather Network. Univ. of Florida, Gainesville, FL. [Electronic database] Available at http:/ /fawn.ifas.ufl.edu (verified December 2002).
4. Borror, D. J., C. A. Triplehorn, and N. F. Johnson. 1989. An introduction to the study of insects, 6th Ed., Saunders College Publishing, Chicago, IL.
5. Bugg, R. L., and J. D. Dutcher. 1989. Warm-season cover crops for pecan orchards: horticultural and entomological implications. Biol. Agric. Hort. 6:123-148.
6. Bugg, R. L., and R. T. Ellis. 1990. Insects associated with cover crops in Massachusetts. Biol. Agric. Hort. 7:47-68.
7. Bugg, R. L., S. C. Phatak, and J. D. Dutcher. 1990. Insects associated with cool-season cover crops in Southern Georgia: Implications for pest control in truck-farm and pecan agroecosystems. Biol. Agric. Hort. 7:17-45.
8. Clark, M. S. 1999. Ground beetle abundance and community composition in conventional and organic tomato systems of California's Central Valley. Appl. Soil Ecol. 11:199-206.
9. Coleman, D. C., and D. A. Crossley, Jr. 1996. Fundamentals of soil ecology. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
10. Duelli, P., M. K. Obrist, and D. R. Schmatz. 1999. Biodiversity evaluation in agricultural landscapes: above-ground insects. Agric., Ecosystems Environ. 74:33-64.
11. Freed, R., S. P. Eisensmith, S. Goetz, D. Reicosky, V. W. Smail, and P. Wolberg. 1987. User's Guide to MSTAT (ver. 4.0). Michigan State Univ., East Lansing.
12. Gallaher, R. N. 1999. Variety response of strip-till cotton into winter cover crops at Gainesville, Florida. p. 144-150. In J. E. Hook (ed.). Proc. of the 22nd Annual Southern Conservation Tillage Conference for Sustainable Agriculture. Georgia Agric. Exp. Stn., Univ. of Georgia, Athens.
13. Luff, M. L. 1975. Some features influencing the efficiency of pitfall traps. Oecologia (Berl.) 19:345-357.
14. Neave, P., and C.A. Fox. 1998. Response of soil invertebrates to reduced tillage systems established on a clay loam soil. Appl. Soil Ecol. 9:423-428.
15. Varchola, J. M., and J. P. Dunn. 1999. Changes in ground beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) assemblages in farming systems bordered by complex or simple roadside vegetation. Agric., Ecosystems Environ. 73:41-49.