New Contributions to the Study of the Nematode Fauna in the French West Indies
Authors
A. Kermarrec
C. S. La Massese
Abstract
A new nematological survey campaign in the French Antilles (West Indies) demonstrates the presence of some main phytophagous species associated with miscellaneous host plants as well as the deterioration of the structure of the nematode fauna with the initiation of land cultivation. The ratio R = total population/number of phytophagous Tylenchs is introduced to allow an evaluation of the changes which take place in the natural equilibrium of nematode populations after beginning land cultivation.
