Can we make locust and grasshopper management sustainable?

Journal of Orthoptera Research

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 315-329

  Lockwood, Jeffrey A ^a,c   Showler, Allan T ^b,c   Latchininsky, Alexandre V ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b KIKA DE LA GARZA SUBTROPICAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c Association for Applied Acridology International   (United States)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Grasshoppers; Locusts; Management; Scale; Spatiotemporal; Values

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349099016     PISSN: 10826467     EISSN: 19372426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1665/1082-6467(2001)010[0315:CWMLAG]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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