Agricultural landscape simplification does not consistently drive insecticide use

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 38, 2013, Pages 15330-15335

  Larsen, Ashley E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem services; Land use policy; Longitudinal data; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

ARTICLE; CROPLAND; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; MONOCULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LAND-USE POLICY; LONGITUDINAL DATA; PESTICIDES;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTICIDES; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84884309739     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1301900110     Document Type: Article

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