Occupancy-abundance models for predicting densities of three leaf beetles damaging the multipurpose tree Sesbania sesban in eastern and southern Africa

Bulletin of Entomological Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 61-69

  Sileshi, G ^a,c   Hailu, G ^b   Mafongoya, P L ^a  

^a Zambia ICRAF Agroforestry Project   (Zambia)

^b WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^c NONE   (Zambia)

Author keywords

Binomial sampling; Exosoma; Mesoplatys; Ootheca; Power law

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; PEST OUTBREAK; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDICTION;

AFRICA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SESBANIA; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; BEETLES; ECOSYSTEM; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; SESBANIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AFRICA;

CHRYSOMELIDAE; COLEOPTERA; EXOSOMA; MESOPLATYS; MESOPLATYS OCHROPTERA; OOTHECA; SESBANIA; SESBANIA SESBAN;

EID: 32944482126     PISSN: 00074853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1079/BER2005401     Document Type: Article

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