Linking locust gregarization to local resource distribution patterns across a large spatial scale

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1577-1583

  Babah, Mohamed Abdallahi Ould ^a   Sword, Gregory A ^a,b  

^a The Mauritanian National Desert Locust Centre: Centre National de Lutte Antiacridienne   (Mauritania)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Gregarization; Phase; Schistocerca gregaria

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; LOCUST; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARISTIDA; ARISTIDA PUNGENS; INVERTEBRATA; ORTHOPTERA; PANICUM; PANICUM TURGIDUM; POACEAE; SCHISTOCERCA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 11144234345     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/0046-225X-33.6.1577     Document Type: Article

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