Integrated pest management: Theoretical insights from a threshold policy

Neotropical Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Costa, Michel I da Silveira ^a   Faria, Lucas del B ^b  

^a LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE COMPUTAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF LAVRAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Pest control; Pesticide toxicity; Virtual equilibrium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PEST CONTROL; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PEST CONTROL;

EID: 77952531698     PISSN: 1519566X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1519-566X2010000100001     Document Type: Article

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