Micro-managing arthropod invasions: Eradication and control of invasive arthropods with microbes

Biological Invasions

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2895-2912

  Hajek, Ann E ^a   Tobin, Patrick C ^b  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b NORTHERN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Arthropod pathogens; Augmentation biological control; Biological invasions; Classical biological control; Containment; Eradication; Lymantria dispar

Indexed keywords

ARTHROPOD; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ECONOMIC IMPACT; ENTOMOPATHOGENIC ORGANISM; INVASIVE SPECIES; MOTH; NEMATODE; PATHOGEN;

NEW ZEALAND; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS; BACILLUS THURINGIENSIS SEROVAR KURSTAKI; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FUNGI; LEPIDOPTERA; LYMANTRIA; LYMANTRIA DISPAR; LYMANTRIA DISPAR MNPV; NEMATODA;

EID: 77955771180     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-010-9735-6     Document Type: Article

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