Claim · #6494772
Brassica oleracea · pest pressure · Delia radicum
pest pressure · effect: harmful
eats GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“number of pupae increased in each crop with increasing plant density”
- Authors
- Dent D.
- Year
- 2000
- Publication
- CABI Publishing
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Positive scaling of Delia radicum pupal density with cruciferous host density is a well-established resource-concentration result and the ~0.7 power-law slope is consistent with Mukerji and Harcourt-style analyses.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Delia radicum oviposition/pupation increases with brassica host density per resource-concentration hypothesis; sub-linear (~0.7) slope is consistent with reported field-plot data.”
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