A simulation model to evaluate control strategies for the grasshopper Oedaleus senegalensis in West Africa

Crop Protection

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 592-601

  Fisker, Eva Nølke ^a,b   Bak, Jesper ^a   Niassy, Abdoulaye ^c  

^a Department of Terrestrial Ecology   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c Direction de la Protection des Végétaux ^*  (Senegal)

Author keywords

Ecological modelling; Insecticides; Integrated pest management; Metarhizium anisopliae; Oedaleus senegalensis

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FUNGUS; GRASSHOPPER; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MILLET; PEST SPECIES; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SIMULATION; YIELD RESPONSE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; ERITREA; SAHEL [ERITREA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ARTHROPODA; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; OEDALEUS SENEGALENSIS;

EID: 33846379474     PISSN: 02612194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cropro.2006.04.026     Document Type: Article

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