Current status and constraints in the assessment of non-target effects

Environmental Impact of Invertebrates for Biological Control of Arthropods: Methods and Risk Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-14

  Babendreier, Dirk ^a   Bigler, Franz ^a   Kuhlmann, Ulrich ^b  

^a Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

^b CABI   (Switzerland)

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