| Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Contents; 1. Illuminating the Black Box: The Relationship Between Injury and Yield; 2. Yield Loss and Pest Management; 3. Techniques for Evaluating Yield Loss from Insects; 4. Yield Loss of Field Corn from Insects; 5. Phenological Disruption and Yield Loss from Insects; 6. Photosynthesis, Yield Loss, and Injury Guilds; 7. The Influence of Cultivar and Plant Architecture on Yield Loss; 8. Drought Stress, Insects, and Yield Loss; 9. The Impact of Herbivory on Plants: Yield, Fitness, and Population Dynamics |
| Summary |
This work utilizes a physiologically-based approach to provide a common basis for considering and discussing biotic stress. It emphasizes the understandings of yield loss in the major pest science disciplines of etomology, weed science and pathology, and covers yeild loss to insect herbivores |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Agricultural pests.
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Crop losses.
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Crops -- Ecology.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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Agricultural pests
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Crop losses
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Crops -- Ecology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peterson, Robert K. D
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Higley, Leon G
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| ISBN |
1420040758 |
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9781420040753 |
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