Plant communities can predict the distribution of solitarious desert locust Schistocerca gregaria

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 989-997

  Van Der Werf, Wopke ^a   Woldewahid, Gebremedhin ^a,c   Van Huis, Arnold ^a   Butrous, Munir ^b,d   Sykora, Karle ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations   (Sudan)

^c International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)   (Ethiopia)

^d Group Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology ^*  (Egypt)

Author keywords

Plant community insect association; Population monitoring; Sampling efficiency

Indexed keywords

LOCUST; MONITORING; PEST SPECIES; PLANT COMMUNITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; SUDAN;

HELIOTROPIUM; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; ORTHOPTERA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 28444435870     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01073.x     Document Type: Article

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