In 2 consecutive years, ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) were sampled in commercial organic and conventional potato fields, using pit fall traps. Four conventional and 3 organic potato fields were surveyed to determine ground beetle taxa composition. In a related study, potato fields were assigned to 1 of 4 transitional systems...
The history of entomopathogenic nematology is briefly reviewed. Topic selections include early descriptions of members
of Steinernema and Heterorhabditis, how only morphology was originally used to distinguish between the species; descriptions of the
symbiotic bacteria and elucidating their role in the nematode- insect complex, including antibiotic properties, phase variants, and...
The current trend toward the establishment and care of forests for a
wide combination of uses requires flexibility in forest culture and a
knowledge of the silvicultural choices available to the resource manager. This
publication summarizes for each of 37 major forest types in the United States
the silvicultural systems...
This study develops an improved method for understanding
economic production relationships in small scale
fisheries. This method postulates that gross revenue is a
function of physical input quantities, and is based upon
the transcendental logarithmic function to derive factor
share equations for each of the five inputs in the model....