The usefulness of the ecoregion concept for safer import of invertebrate biological control agents

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

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 202-221

  Cock, Matthew J W ^a   Kuhlmann, Ulrich ^a   Schaffner, Urs ^a   Bigler, Franz ^b   Babendreier, Dirk ^b  

^a CABI   (Switzerland)

^b Eidg Forschungsanstalt fur Agrarokologie und Landbau   (Switzerland)

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