Plant water stress, leaf temperature, and spider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) outbreaks in California vineyards

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1232-1241

  Stavrinides, Menelaos C ^a,b   Daane, Kent M ^a   Lampinen, Bruce D ^c   Mills, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Cyprus)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

grape plants; leaf temperature; plant water stress; predatory mites; spider mites

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AIR TEMPERATURE; CROP PEST; IRRIGATION SYSTEM; MITE; PEST OUTBREAK; PLANT WATER RELATIONS; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PREDATION; TEMPERATURE PROFILE; VINEYARD;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; DEHYDRATION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE; TETRANYCHIDAE; UNITED STATES; VITIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CALIFORNIA; DEHYDRATION; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; PLANT LEAVES; POPULATION DENSITY; TEMPERATURE; TETRANYCHIDAE; VITIS; WATER;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ACARI; ARANEAE; EOTETRANYCHUS WILLAMETTEI; PHYTOSEIIDAE; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS PACIFICUS; VITACEAE;

EID: 77955401440     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN09288     Document Type: Article

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