Spatial clustering of Diabrotica virgifera virgifera and Agriotes ustulatus in small-scale maize fields without topographic relief drift

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-75

  Toepfer, Stefan ^a   Ellsbury, Michael M ^b   Eschen, René ^a   Kuhlmann, Ulrich ^a  

^a CABI   (Switzerland)

^b NORTH CENTRAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chrysomelidae; Coleoptera; Elateridae; Soil; Variograms; Vegetation; Western click beetle; Western corn rootworm

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FIELD; MAIZE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; RELIEF; SOIL STRUCTURE; TOPOGRAPHY; VARIOGRAM;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

AGRIOTES USTULATUS; ASTERACEAE; CHRYSOMELIDAE; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE; COLEOPTERA; DIABROTICA VIRGIFERA VIRGIFERA; ELATERIDAE; POACEAE; SORGHUM HALEPENSE; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 34250635991     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00549.x     Document Type: Article

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