The Effect of Farmers’ Decisions on Pest Control with Bt Crops: A Billion Dollar Game of Strategy

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Milne, Alice E ^a   Bell, James R ^a   Hutchison, William D ^b   van den Bosch, Frank ^a   Mitchell, Paul D ^c   Crowder, David ^d   Parnell, Stephen ^a,e   Whitmore, Andrew P ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAME THEORY; PEST CONTROL; SEED;

COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS; DRIFT PROBLEM; EMERGENT PROPERTY; EUROPEAN CORN BORERS; FEEDBACK MECHANISMS; LANDSCAPE SCALE; PARASITE-; PEST POPULATION; PROFIT AND LOSS; SNOW DRIFTS;

CROPS;

ADOPTION; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CROP; GAME; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; OSTRINIA NUBILALIS; PARASITE; PERCEPTION; PEST CONTROL; PEST POPULATION; PLANT SEED; PREVALENCE; PROFIT; REWARD; ANIMAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGICAL PEST CONTROL; BIOLOGY; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; LEPIDOPTERA; MAIZE; MICROBIOLOGY; NOSEMA; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENIC PLANT; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; DECISION MAKING; FARMERS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; LEPIDOPTERA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NOSEMA; PEST CONTROL, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; UNITED STATES; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84953294277     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004483     Document Type: Article

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