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Modeling Ratios With Potential Zero-Inflation To Assess Soil Nematode Community Structure, Joanna Zbylut, Leigh Murray, S. H. Thomas, J. Beacham, J. Schroeder, C. Fiore
Modeling Ratios With Potential Zero-Inflation To Assess Soil Nematode Community Structure, Joanna Zbylut, Leigh Murray, S. H. Thomas, J. Beacham, J. Schroeder, C. Fiore
Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture
The southern root-knot nematode (SRKN) and the weedy perennials, yellow nutsedge (YNS) and purple nutsedge (PNS) are simultaneously-occurring pests in the irrigated agricultural soils of southern New Mexico. Previous research has characterized SRKN, YNS and PNS as a mutually beneficial pest complex and has shown their enhanced population growth and survival when they occur together. In addition, it was shown that the density of nutsedge in a field could be used as a predictor of SRKN juveniles in the soil. In addition to SRKN, which is the most harmful of the plant parasitic nematodes, in southern New Mexico other species …