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Carl Barton Huffaker
Carl Barton Huffaker
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meticulously conducting research to gain unclerstancling of the population regulating mechanisms in various living systems en c! was rigorously analyzing his ciata en c!
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From April 1941 to December 1943 he was an assistant entomologist at the University of Delaware Agricultural Experiment Station. A number of years later one of his more senior colleagues at the station commented on young Huffaker's abilities as a scientist: "Car!
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This program resulted in total and permanent control of Klamath weec! in its area of clistribution in the western states, where it is found at very low densities as a roacisicle plant in shacly situations.
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the preciator Metaseiutus occidentatis on orange fruits. The cyclamen mite studies showed the principal role that predatory mites have in determining the pest population density.
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The laboratory work using orange ecosystems highlighted the contribution that heterogeneity of the environment can play in the balance of nature while not, however, entirely substituting for a basic clensity-clepenclent regulating mechanism. Yet another project carrier!
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as woric! coordinator of the IBP on biological control of spicier mites, Professor Huffaker prepared, at the request of the National Science Foundation, a feasibility study for a Tong-term, nationwicle, integrates!
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He was president of the Entomological Society, member of the Executive Council of the Intersociety Consortium for Plant Protection, member of the Pesticide Advisory Board of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and a member of the California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Project Organizing Committee. He served on a joint U.S./ U.S.S.R.
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consultations with en c! briefs to the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation, Presiclent's Council for Environmental Quality, Agricultural Research Policy Advisory Committee, en c!
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CARL BART O N H U FFAKE R 147 Although his scientific en c! academic activities clemanclec!
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36:561-69. 1944 The temperature relations of the immature stages of the malarial mosquito, Anopheles quadrimaculatus Say, with a comparison of the developmental power of constant and variable temperatures in insect metabolism.
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A ten-year study of vegetational changes associated with biological control of Klamath weeds.
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Regulatory processes and population cyclicity in laboratory populations of Anagasta kuhniella (Zeller) (Lepidoptera: Phycitidae)
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Benefits and risks of using natural enemies for controlling pests. In Environmental Protection and Biological Forms of Control of Pest Organisms, eds.
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Nowierski. Biological control of puncturevine Tribulus terrestris L
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