Biodiversity and insect pests : key issues for sustainable management

Biodiversity and insect pests key issues for sustainable management

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating at the local and landscape scales to check pest build-up. This book b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Gurr, Geoff (-), Wratten, Stephen D., Snyder, William E., Read, Donna M. Y.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons 2012.
Colección:Wiley ebooks
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37656636*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Biodiversity and insect pests / Geoff M. Gurr, Steve D. Wratten, William E. Snyder
  • Fundamentals
  • The ecology of biodiversity-biocontrol relationships / William E. Snyder, Jason M. Tylianakis
  • The role of generalist predators in terrestrial food webs : lessons for agricultural pest management / K.D. Welch, R.S. Pfannenstiel, J.D. Harwood
  • Ecological economics of biodiversity use for pest management / Mark Gillespie, Steve D. Wratten
  • Soil fertility, biodiversity and pest management / Miguel A. Altieri, Luigi Ponti, Clara I. Nicholls
  • Plant biodiversity as a resource for natural products for insect pest management / Opender Koul
  • The ecology and utility of local and landscape scale effects in pest management / Sagrario Gámez-Virués, Mattias Jonsson, Barbara Ekbom
  • Methods
  • Scale effects in biodiversity and biological control : methods and statistical analysis / Christoph Scherber, Blas Lavandero, Katrin M. Meyer, David Perovic, Ute Visser, Kerstin Wiegand, Teja Tscharntke
  • Pick and mix : selecting flowering plants to meet the requirements of target biological control insects / Felix L. Wäckers, Paul C.J. van Rijn
  • The molecular revolution: using polymerase chain reaction methods to explore the role of predators in terrestrial food webs / William O.C. Symondson.
  • Employing chemical ecology to understand and exploit biodiversity for pest management / David G. James, Sofia Orre-Gordon, Olivia L. Reynolds (nee Kvedaras), Marja Simpson
  • Application
  • Using decision theory and sociological tools to facilitate adoption of biodiversity-based pest management strategies / M.M. Escalada, K.L. Heong
  • Ecological engineering strategies to manage insect pests in rice Geoff M. Gurr, K.L. Heong J.A. Cheng, J. Catindig
  • China's "Green Plant Protection" initiative : coordinated promotion of biodiversity-related technologies / Lu Zhongxian, Yang Yajun, Yang Puyun, Zhao Zhonghua
  • Diversity and defence : plant-herbivore interactions at multiple scales and trophic levels / Finbarr G. Horgan
  • "Push-pull" revisited : the process of successful deployment of a chemical ecology based pest management tool / Zeyaur R. Khan, Charles A.O. Midega, Jimmy Pittchar, Toby J.A. Bruce, John A. Pickett
  • Using native plant species to diversify agriculture / Douglas A. Landis, Mary M. Gardiner, Jean Tompkins
  • Using biodiversity for pest suppression in urban landscapes / Paula M. Shrewsbury, Simon R. Leather
  • Cover crops and related methods for enhancing agricultural biodiversity and conservation biocontrol : successful case studies / P.G. Tillman, H.A. Smith, J.M. Holland
  • Synthesis
  • Conclusion: Biodiversity as an asset rather than a burden / Geoff M. Gurr, William E. Snyder, Steve D. Wratten, Donna M.Y. Read.

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