Evaluating the importance of residual effects from previous years' treatment on the efficiency of different strategies for control of Sahelian grasshoppers with Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum

Biocontrol Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 413-422

  Bak, Jesper ^a,d   Fisker, Eva N ^a,b   Kooyman, Christiaan ^c  

^a Department of Inland Fisheries   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c IITA Biol Control Center for Africa   (Benin)

^d The Danish National Environmental Research Institute   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Biological control; Ecological modeling; Metarhizium anisopliae var. acridum; Oedaleus senegalensis; Pyrgomorpha cognata; Residual effect

Indexed keywords

BIOCONTROL AGENT; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; FENITROTHION; FUNGUS; GRASSHOPPER; PEST SPECIES;

AFRICA; NIGER [WEST AFRICA]; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WEST AFRICA;

METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE; METARHIZIUM ANISOPLIAE VAR. ACRIDUM; OEDALEUS SENEGALENSIS; PYRGOMORPHA;

EID: 34247216194     PISSN: 09583157     EISSN: 13600478     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09583150701213745     Document Type: Article

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