Scientific advances in the analysis of direct risks of weed biological control agents to nontarget plants

Biological Control

Volumn 35, Issue 3 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 215-226

  Sheppard, A W ^a   Van Klinken, R D ^a   Heard, T A ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fundamental host range; Host shifts; Host specificity; Host specificity testing; Intraspecific variation; Nontarget impacts; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744550105     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2005.05.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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