Impact of shade on the spatial distribution of Sahlbergella singularis in traditional cocoa agroforests

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 69-79

  Babin, Régis ^a,b   Ten Hoopen, Gerben M ^a   Cilas, Christian ^a   Enjalric, Frank ^a   Yede, ^c   Gendre, Pierre ^d   Lumaret, Jean Pierre ^b  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL VALÉRY   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT IRAD   (Cameroon)

^d ISTOM   (France)

Author keywords

Cocoa mirids; Distantiella theobroma; Geostatistics; Hemiptera; Hemispherical photography; Miridae; Sahlbergella singularis Hagl; Shade; Spatial distribution; Theobroma cacao

Indexed keywords

HEMIPTERA; MIRIDAE; SAHLBERGELLA SINGULARIS; THEOBROMA; THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 74549206087     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2009.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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