Population models for threshold-based control of Tetranychus urticae in small-scale Kenyan tomato fields and for evaluating weather and host plant species effects

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 195-212

  Knapp, Markus ^a   Sarr, Ibrahima ^a   Gilioli, Gianni ^b   Baumgärtner, Johann ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDITERRANEA OF REGGIO CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Host plants; Population model; Tetranychus urticae; Threshold based control; Weather

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CHEMICAL CONTROL; DATA SET; GROWING SEASON; HOST PLANT; LIFE CYCLE; MITE; ORCHARD; POPULATION MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THRESHOLD; WEATHER;

ANIMAL; APPLE; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FORECASTING; INSECT CONTROL; KENYA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; STRAWBERRY; TETRANYCHIDAE; TOMATO; WEATHER;

ANIMALS; FORECASTING; FRAGARIA; KENYA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALUS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING STUDIES; TETRANYCHIDAE; TICK CONTROL; WEATHER;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ACARI; ARANEAE; FRAGARIA VESCA CALIFORNICA; FRAGARIA X ANANASSA; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MALUS X DOMESTICA; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

EID: 33747695768     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-006-9018-1     Document Type: Article

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