Patchy herbivore and pathogen damage throughout the introduced Australian range of groundsel bush, Baccharis halimifolia, is influenced by rainfall, elevation, temperature, plant density and size

Biological Control

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-20

  Sims Chilton, N M ^a,b   Zalucki, M P ^a   Buckley, Y M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b The CRC for Australian Weed Management   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aristotelia ivae; Asteraceae; Baccharis halimifolia; Bucculatrix ivella; Elevation; Hellensia balanotes; Host plant size; Long term evaluation; Megacyllene mellyi; Puccinia evadens biological control; Rhopalomyia californica; Temperature; Trirhabda bacharidis

Indexed keywords

AGROMYZIDAE; ASTERACEAE; BACCHARIS; BACCHARIS HALIMIFOLIA; BUCCULATRIX; FUNGI; MEGACYLLENE; PUCCINIA; RHOPALOMYIA CALIFORNICA; TRIRHABDA BACHARIDIS; UREDINALES;

EID: 67349096826     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2009.03.001     Document Type: Article

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