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Meteorology and Desert Locust Forecasting 1
Author(s) -
PEDGLEY D.E.
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
eppo bulletin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.327
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1365-2338
pISSN - 0250-8052
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2338.1983.tb01606.x
Subject(s) - desert locust , locust , geography , desert (philosophy) , ecology , variety (cybernetics) , biology , political science , schistocerca , computer science , artificial intelligence , law
The now very considerable understanding of weather effects on breeding and movement by the desert locust has been used to prepare a forecasting manual. It is a two‐volume, 400‐page publication that describes, explains and illustrates the principles of modern forecasting, and includes not only much material on the biology and ecology of this species but also many new biogeographical studies of past locust developments that involved a variety of synoptic systems in some 60 countries of northern and eastern Africa and south‐western Asia. It can be useful to all who are concerned with the effects of weather on insect movement.