Consulta: subjectFacets:"Agricultural pest"
Registros recuperados: 3
Data/hora: 11/06/2024 07:58:12

A new Eulechriops (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Conoderinae) from Brazil attacking Rubus
Provedor de dados: 82
Autores: Hespenheide,Henry A.
Eulechriops rubi, new species, is described from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. It is an agricultural pest whose larvae feed in the shoots of Rubus species and kill the plants.
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Palavras-chave: Agricultural pest; New species; Stem-borer.
Ano: 2005
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1519-566X2005000600019

Willingness of Sri Lankan Farmers to pay for a Scheme to Conserve Elephants: An Empirical Analysis
Provedor de dados: 31
Autores: Bandara,   Ranjith; Tisdell,   Clement A.
This paper explores the feasibility of adopting an integrated economic approach to raise farmers’ tolerance of the presence of elephants on their farming lands. Responses to this approach were sought from a sample of farmers in the areas affected by human elephant conflict in the northwestern province of Sri Lanka. Results from a contingent valuation survey of their willingness to pay for a scheme to conserve elephants are also reported. Two separate logit regression analyses were undertaken to examine the factors that influence the farmers’ responses for the payment principle question and their opinions on the integrated economic approach. Although found that the majority of the respondents expressed their willingness to pay for the proposed scheme and...
Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper
Palavras-chave: Agricultural pest; Agricultural insurance; Asian elephant; Economic valuation; Elephas maximus; Farmers’ wildlife attitudes; Human-elephant conflict; Wildlife conservation; Environmental Economics and Policy; Land Economics/Use; Livestock Production/Industries.
Ano: 2003
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/48954

Checklist and description of three new chromatic patterns of Pachycoris torridus (Scopoli, 1772) (Hemiptera: Scutelleridae)
Provedor de dados: 49
Autores: Souza-Firmino,Tatiani Seni de; Alevi,Kaio Cesar Chaboli; Pereira,Luis Lenin Vicente; Banho,Cecilia Artico; Silva Junior,Fernando Cesar; Souza,Emi Rosane Silistino de; Itoyama,Mary Massumi.
In the present paper, 27 chromatic patterns of the specie Pachycoris torridus (Scopoli, 1772) were grouped and three new patterns are described. Because of this high phenotypic polymorphism, P. torridus already been registered eight times as a new specie, highlighting the importance of the application of different tools to assist in taxonomy of this hemipterous of economic importance.
Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Palavras-chave: Insect; Heteroptera; Polymorphism; Agricultural pest.
Ano: 2016
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1676-06032016000100406