Fifty years of attempted biological control of termites - Analysis of a failure

Biological Control

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 69-82

  Chouvenc, Thomas ^a   Su, Nan Yao ^a   Kenneth Grace, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Fungi; Laboratory assay; Nematodes; Pathogen; Publication bias; Termite

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; ISOPTERA; NEMATODA;

EID: 81055156283     PISSN: 10499644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocontrol.2011.06.015     Document Type: Article

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