Spatial distribution of populations of solitarious adult desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria Forsk.) on the coastal plain of Sudan

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 181-191

  Woldewahid, Gebremedhin ^a   Van Der Werf, Wopke ^a   Van Huis, Arnold ^a   Stein, Alfred ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Desert locust; Geostatistics; Heliotropium arbainense; Kriging; Millet; Sampling

Indexed keywords

HELIOTROPIUM; HELIOTROPIUM ARBAINENSE; ORTHOPTERA; PENNISETUM; PENNISETUM GLAUCUM; SCHISTOCERCA; SCHISTOCERCA GREGARIA;

EID: 3543029265     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9555.2004.00221.x     Document Type: Article

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