Selection of non-target species for host specificity testing

Environmental Impact of Invertebrates for Biological Control of Arthropods: Methods and Risk Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 15-37

  Kuhlmann, Ulrich ^a   Schaffner, Urs ^a   Mason, Peter G ^b  

^a CABI   (Switzerland)

^b AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

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