Researcher explores relationship between landscape simplification and insecticide use
Thursday, September 5, 2013 - 13:00
in Biology & Nature
A new UCSB study that analyzed U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Census of Agriculture data spanning two decades (1987-2007) shows that the statistical magnitude, existence, and direction of the relationship between landscape simplification –– a term used for the conversion of natural habitat to cropland –– and insecticide use varies enormously year to year.