Assessing the probability of freedom from pine wood nematode based on 19 years of surveys

Many quarantine pests, such as the pine wood nematode (PWN, Bursaphelenchus xylophilus), are surveyed annually in all EU countries. Although a lot of resources are spent in the surveys, the confidence in pest freedom achieved with them is not commonly analysed. We assessed the probab...

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Main Authors: Salla Hannunen, Juha Tuomola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2020-07-01
Series:NeoBiota
Online Access:https://neobiota.pensoft.net/article/38313/download/pdf/