Quantifying secondary pest outbreaks in cotton and their monetary cost with causal-inference statistics

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2770-2780

  Gross, Kevin ^a   Rosenheim, Jay A ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal inference; Cotton; Ecosystem services; Indirect effects; Integrated pest management; Lygus spp.; Potential outcomes; San Joaquin Valley, California, USA; Secondary pest outbreak

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

COTTON; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FARMING SYSTEM; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MONETARY POLICY; NATURAL ENEMY; PARASITOID; PEST OUTBREAK; PEST SPECIES; PESTICIDE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOSSYPIUM; INSECT; INSECT CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION GROWTH; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOSSYPIUM; INSECT CONTROL; INSECTICIDES; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION GROWTH;

CALIFORNIA; SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY; UNITED STATES;

ARTHROPODA; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LYGUS; LYGUS HESPERUS;

EID: 80053938573     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0118.1     Document Type: Article

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