Predicting the distribution of Eccritotarsus catarinensis, a natural enemy released on water hyacinth in South Africa

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 237-247

  Coetzee, Julie A ^a,b   Byrne, Marcus J ^a   Hill, Martin P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Biological control; Climate matching; Critical thermal minimum; Eichhornia crassipes; Heteroptera; Lower lethal limit; Miridae; Thermal physiology

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC PLANT; BIOCONTROL AGENT; PREDICTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WEED; WINTER;

AFRICA; GAUTENG; JOHANNESBURG; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ARTHROPODA; ECCRITOTARSUS CATARINENSIS; EICHHORNIA; EICHHORNIA CRASSIPES; HETEROPTERA; HEXAPODA; MIRIDAE; PONTEDERIACEAE;

EID: 36248974221     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00622.x     Document Type: Article

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