Local vs. landscape effects of woody field borders as barriers to crop pest movement

Ecology and Society

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1998, Pages

  Bhar, Rod ^a   Fahrig, Lenore ^b  

^a Ottawa Carleton Institute of Biology   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Crop pest; Crop rotation; Dispersal; Fencerow; Field margin; Hedgerow; Patchy population; Pest control; Shelterbelt; Simulation model; Woody border

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249088574     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/es-00061-020203     Document Type: Article

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