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Grasshoppers and Grassland Health
. Ed(S): Lockwood, Jeffrey A.; Latchininsky, Alexandre V.; Sergeev, Michael G.
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Hardback. Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Acridogenic and Anthropogenic Hazards to the Grassland Biome: Managing Grasshopper Outbreaks without Risking Environmental Disaster, Estes Park, Colorado, U.S.A., September 11-18, 1999 Editor(s): Lockwood, Jeffrey A.; Latchininsky, Alexandre V.; Sergeev, Michael G. Series: NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2. Num Pages: 231 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PSVS; PSVT7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 170 x 14. Weight in Grams: 509.
Acridids (grasshoppers and locusts) can range from being rare curiosities to abundant menaces. Some are threatened with extinction and become subjects of intensive conservation efforts, while others are devastating pests and become the objects of massive control programmes. Even within a species, there are times when the animal is so abundant that its crushed masses cause the wheels of trains to skid (the Rocky Mountain grasshopper, Melanoplus spretus Walsh in western North America in the 1860s and I 870s), while at other times the animal is alarmingly scarce (the Rocky Mountain grasshopper went extinct in the early 1900s). Why are ... Read more
Acridids (grasshoppers and locusts) can range from being rare curiosities to abundant menaces. Some are threatened with extinction and become subjects of intensive conservation efforts, while others are devastating pests and become the objects of massive control programmes. Even within a species, there are times when the animal is so abundant that its crushed masses cause the wheels of trains to skid (the Rocky Mountain grasshopper, Melanoplus spretus Walsh in western North America in the 1860s and I 870s), while at other times the animal is alarmingly scarce (the Rocky Mountain grasshopper went extinct in the early 1900s). Why are ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
Number of pages
231
Condition
New
Series
NATO Science Partnership Subseries: 2
Number of Pages
221
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9780792365297
SKU
V9780792365297
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