Analysis of vertical distributions and effective flight layers of insects: Three-dimensional simulation of flying insects and catch at trap heights

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1210-1222

  Byers, John A ^a  

^a US ARID LAND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computer simulation in three dimensions; mass trapping; mating disruption; mean flight height; movement algorithms

Indexed keywords

INSECT ATTRACTANTS; PHEROMONE;

COMPUTER; FLIGHT ACTIVITY; INSECT; MATING DISRUPTION; MOVEMENT; SEMIOCHEMICAL; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TRAPPING;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FLYING; INSECT; MALE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; INSECTS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHEROMONES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 80054111480     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11043     Document Type: Article

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