Chapter 9. Donald C. Herzog, Joseph E. Funderburk. 1986. Ecological bases for habitat management and pest cultural control. Pages 217-250. In: Marcos Kogan (editor). Ecological Theory and Integrated Pest Management Practice. John Wiley Interscience, New York, 362 pages.

Keywords: the diversity-stability question, cultural practices and cultural controls, habitat and niche, functional mechanisms, plant (crop) apparency to pests, resource heterogeneity, resource concentration (vegetation texture), host nutrition (vigor), synchrony of plant and herbivore phenologies, factors affecting crop growth, cultural control by monitoring vegetation in agroecosystems, noncrop vegetation, crop vegetation, cultural control by modifying practices used to produce crops, planting and harvest dates, plant density and row width, fertilization, tillage, water management, soybean pests and natural enemies whose populations are reported to be affected by soil tillage practices (pests=Anticarsia gemmatalis, Cerotoma trifurcata, Delia platura, Diabrotica spp., Elasmopalpus lignosellus, Epilachna varivestis, Heliothis spp., Melanoplus spp., Nezara viridula, Plathypena scabra, Popillia japonica, Spissistilus festinus, slugs) (natural enemies=carabids, Geocoris sp., Lebia spp., Nabis spp., Podisus maculiventris, spiders, staphylinids)