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IPM Handbook: Section IV: Population Dynamics
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Section IV: Population Dynamics

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IV.1 What Modeling Is and How It Works — Jerome A. Onsager

IV.2 Grasshopper Egg Development: the Role of Temperature in Predicting Egg Hatch — J. R. Fisher, W. P. Kemp, F. B. Pierson, and J. R. Wight

IV.3 Grasshoppers and Vegetation Communities — Anthony Joern, William P. Kemp, Gary E. Belovsky, and Kevin O’Neill

IV.4 Host Plant Quality and Grasshopper Populations — Anthony Joern

IV.5 Environmental Factors That Affect Plant Quality — Anthony Joern

IV.6 Melanoplus sanguinipes Phenology North–South Across the Western United States — J. R. Fisher, W. P. Kemp, and J. S. Berry

IV.7 Nutritional Needs and Control of Feeding — Anthony Joern

IV.8 Recognizing and Managing Potential Outbreak Conditions — G. E. Belovsky, J. A. Lockwood, and K. Winks