Precision agriculture has been difficult to apply to insects at the within field scale due to rapid changes in density, life stage and spatial pattern. To understand these spatio-temporal relationships, we worked with the Colorado potato beetle to (1) study spatial structure as a dynamic process, (2) compare populations from fields with different at-planting treatments, and (3) model spatial aspects of field colonization.
Species 1: Coleoptera Chrysomelidae Leptinotarsa decemlineata (Colorado potato beetle)
Keywords: geostatistics, Precision agriculture
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