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| DOI: | 10.21273/HORTSCI.34.2.271 |
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| Web URL(s): | https://journals.ashs.org/hortsci/view/journals/hortsci/34/2/article-p271.xml?rskey=Uoy4Qy
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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | Merwin, Ian A.;
Ray, John A. |
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| Author Affiliation: | Merwin: Department of Fruit and Vegetable Science, Cornell University; Ray: Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University |
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| Title: | Orchard groundcover management systems affect meadow vole populations and damage to apple trees |
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| Section: | Pest management
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| Source: | HortScience. Vol. 34, No. 2, April 1999, p. 271-274. |
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| Publishing Information: | Alexandria, VA: American Society for Horticultural Science |
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| # of Pages: | 4 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Trees; Agriculture; Voles; Pest control; Companion grasses; Coronilla varia; Photosynthesis; Comparisons; Irradiance; Straw mulches; Festuca rubra; Rodenticides; Biomass; Percent living ground cover; Thiram; Dyes; Tree guards; Trapping; Mowing; Predation; Herbicides
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Meadow vole (Microtus pennsylvanicus Ord) populations, feeding actively and damage to young apple (Malus x domestica Borkh.) trees were monitored for several years in a New York orchard by direct observation, trap counts, and a feeding activity index in various groundcover management systems (GMSs). Meadow vole population density differed among GMSs, with consistently higher densities and more trees damaged in crown vetch (Coronilla varia L.), hay-straw mulch, and red fescue (Festuca rubra L.) turfgrass tree-row strips. Vole densities were high in autumn and low in spring each year. Anticoagulant rodenticides and natural predation did not adequately control voles in GMSs providing favorable habitat. Groundcover biomass per mā was weakly correlated with vole densities in 2 of 3 years, while the percentage of soil surface covered by vegetation was not significantly correlated with vole populations. Applications of thiram fungicide in white latex paint were better than no protection, but less effective than 40-cm-high plastic-mesh guards for preventing vole damage to tree trunks. A combination of late-autumn trapping, close and consistent mowing of the orchard floor, trunk protection with mesh guards, contiguous habitat for vole predators, and herbicide applications within the tree rows provided effective control of meadow-vole damage to trees at this orchard during 3 years without applications of rodentide baits." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 26 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Merwin, I. A., and J. A. Ray. 1999. Orchard groundcover management systems affect meadow vole populations and damage to apple trees. HortScience. 34(2):p. 271-274. |
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| DOI: 10.21273/HORTSCI.34.2.271 |
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