The use of models to design pest suppressive landscapes for sustainable agricultural practice

iEMSs 2012 - Managing Resources of a Limited Planet: Proceedings of the 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1752-1759

  Parry, Hazel R ^a   Bianchi, Felix J J A ^b   Schellhorn, Nancy A ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological control; Ecosystem services; Spatial ecology; Spatially explicit modelling; Sustainability; Transition processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894159027     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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