<p class="jove_content">Life tables allow quantification of the sources and rates of mortality in insect populations and contribute to understanding, predicting and manipulating population dynamics in agroecosystems. Methods for conducting and analyzing cohort-based life tables in the field for an insect with sessile immature life stages are presented.</p>

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Methodology for Developing Life Tables for Sessile Insects in the Field Using the Whitefly, <em>Bemisia tabaci</em>, in Cotton As a Model System

Life tables provide a means of measuring the schedules of birth and death from populations over time. They also can be used to quantify the sources and ...

Institution - USDA-ARS, Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center

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