Reduced population control of an insect pest in managed willow monocultures

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Dalin, Peter ^a   Kindvall, Oskar ^a   Björkman, Christer ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BEETLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITION; DEPLETION; EMPIRICISM; EPIDEMIC; FOLIAGE; INSECT; MONOCULTURE; NONHUMAN; PEST CONTROL; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT LEAF; PLANTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDATOR; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPRING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WILLOW; ANIMAL; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; INSECT CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PHRATORA VULGATISSIMA; SALIX;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; CELLS, CULTURED; INSECT CONTROL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIX;

EID: 65549110294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005487     Document Type: Article

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