Pest control by enriching natural enemies under artificial habitat management along sidewalls of greenhouse in organic farming systems

Journal of Food, Agriculture and Environment

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 449-458

  Xu, Qicong ^a   Fujiyama, Shizuo ^a   Xu, Huilian ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b International Nature Farming Research Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological pest control; Intercropping; IPM; Mathematic modeling; Natural enemies; Nature farming; Population dynamics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CABBAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; GREENHOUSE; HABITAT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NATURAL ENEMY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FARMING; PEST CONTROL; PLANT GROWTH; PLANT RESIDUE; PREDATOR; SPIDER; TOMATO;

EID: 84862226437     PISSN: 14590255     EISSN: 14590263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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