Resource concentration dilutes a key pest in indigenous potato agriculture

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 539-546

  Parsa, Soroush ^a,b   Ccanto, Raul ^c   Rosenheim, Jay A ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR TROPICAL AGRICULTURE CIAT   (Colombia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Grupo Yanapai ^*  (Peru)

Author keywords

Andean potato weevil; Indigenous agriculture; Monoculture; Peruvian Andes; Potato; Premnotrypes spp.; Resource concentration hypothesis; Solanum spp.

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; BEETLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DILUTION; HABITAT TYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MONOCULTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEST CONTROL; PEST SPECIES; POPULATION DENSITY; POTATO; RARE SPECIES; RESOURCE USE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POTATO; WEEVIL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; INSECTICIDES; POPULATION DENSITY; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; WEEVILS;

ANDES;

CURCULIONIDAE; HEXAPODA; SOLANUM; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 79953903018     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0393.1     Document Type: Article

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