Evaluating indirect ecological effects of biological control /

• Corporate Author: Ecological Effects in Biological Control
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2001.
• Subjects: Biological pest control agents > Congresses. > Environmental aspects; Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000); Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Biological Control.; Pesticide and Drug Residues and Ecotoxicology, (New March 2000); Animal Ecology.; Insects.; Biological control.; Biological control agents.; Ecology.; Entomopathogens.; Entomophilic nematodes.; Insect pests.; Natural enemies.; Pathogens.; Plant pathogens.; Electronic books.
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This book contains 11 chapters by 35 contributors, which are noticed elsewhere. The papers were presented at an international symposium held in Montpellier, France, on 17-20 October 1999.

Table of Contents:

• Indirect Ecological Effects in Biological Control : the Challenge and the Opportunity / J.K. Waage
• Indirect Interactions, Community Modules and Biological Control : a Theoretical Perspective / R.D. Holt and M.E. Hochberg
• Research Needs Concerning Non-target Impacts of Biological Control Introductions / K.R. Hopper
• Food Webs, Risks of Alien Enemies and Reform of Biological Control / D.R. Strong and R.W. Pemberton
• Evaluation of Non-target Effects of Pathogens Used for Management of Arthropods / M.S. Goettel and A.E. Hajek
• Insect Biological Control and Non-target Effects : a European Perspective / L.D. Lynch, H.M.T. Hokkanen, D. Babendreier, F. Bigler, G. Burgio, Z.-H. Gao, S. Kuske, A. Loomans, I. Menzler-Hokkanen, M.B. Thomas, G. Tommasini, J.K. Waage, J.C. van Lenteren and Q.-Q. Zeng
• Biological Control in Africa and its Possible Effects on Biodiversity / P. Neuenschwander and R. Markham
• Rhinocyllus conicus : Initial Evaluation and Subsequent Ecological Impacts in North America / A. Gassmann and S.M. Louda
• Risk Analysis and Weed Biological Control / W.M. Lonsdale, D.T. Briese and J.M. Cullen
• Incorporating Biological Control into Ecologically Based Weed Management / R.L. Sheley and M.J. Rinella
• The Scope and Value of Extensive Ecological Studies in the Broom Biological Control Programme / S.V. Fowler, J. Memmott, Q.E. Paynter, A.W. Sheppard and P. Syrett.