DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPTIMAL MONITORING PROGRAM IN COTTON - EMPHASIS ON SPIDERMITES AND HELIOTHIS SPP Academic Article

abstract

• To develop a monitoring program requires that not only the spatial pattern of distribution of a species be known, but also the cost of sampling the area(s) within the host plants occupied by a species. As sample unit size (plant, branch, leaf, etc.) decreases, cost to sample each unit decreases, while the number of units required to estimate a population parameter with a given reliability increases. The concept of costreliability allows for available sampling procedures to be compared and the best one to be chosen. The paper discusses several ways in which monitoring costs have been reduced for Tetranychus spp., Heliothis spp. and predators without reducing the reliability of the estimate. These include the use of subsampling plans, binomial sampling and sequential sampling. 1982 Balthazar Publications.

authors

• Wilson, Lloyd

published proceedings

• ENTOMOPHAGA

author list (cited authors)

• WILSON, L. T.

citation count

• 14

complete list of authors

• WILSON, LT

publication date

• March 1982

publisher

• Springer Nature  Publisher

published in

• BioControl: journal of the International Organisation for Biological Control  Journal

keywords

• 31 Biological Sciences
• 3103 Ecology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1007/BF02371854

start page

• 45

end page

• 50

volume

• 27

issue

• Suppl 1

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02371854