Natural enemies of terrestrial molluscs /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2004.
• Subjects: Agricultural pests > Biological control.; Mollusks > Biological control.; Biological pest control agents.; Biological Control.; Biological Resourcces (Animal); Animal Ecology.; Gastropoda.; Mollusca.; Biological control.; Biological control agents.; Conservation.; Natural enemies.; Parasites.; Pathogens.; Pest control.; Predators.; Species diversity.; Electronic books.
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This book, which contains 15 chapters, draws together the available information on the diversity of organisms that constitute the natural enemies of terrestrial gastropods. In a series of review chapters, it provides an authoritative synthesis of current knowledge and research for predators, parasit...

Table of Contents:

• Avian and Mammalian Predators of Terrestrial Gastropods / John A. Allen
• Coleoptera (Carabidae, Staphylinidae, Lampyridae, Drilidae and Silphidae) as Predators of Terrestrial Gastropods / William O.C. Symondson
• Diptera as Predators and Parasitoids of Terrestrial Gastropods, with Emphasis on Phoridae, Calliphoridae, Sarcophagidae, Muscidae and Fanniidae / James B. Coupland and Gary M. Barker
• Overview of the Biology of Marsh Flies (Diptera: Sciomyzidae), with Special Reference to Predators and Parasitoids of Terrestrial Gastropods / Gary M. Barker, Lloyd Knutson, Jean-Claude Vala, James B. Coupland and Jeffrey K. Barnes
• Terrestrial Planarians (Platyhelminthes : Tricladida : Terricola) Predaceous on Terrestrial Gastropods / Leigh Winsor, Peter M. Johns and Gary M. Barker
• Predatory Gastropods as Natural Enemies of Terrestrial Gastropods and Other Invertebrates / Gary M. Barker and Murray G. Efford
• Millipedes (Diplopoda) and Centipedes (Chilopoda) (Myriapoda) as Predators of Terrestrial Gastropods / Gary M. Barker
• Reptilian Predators of Terrestrial Gastropods / Iara Lúcia Laporta-Ferreira and Maria da Graça Salomão
• Heteropteran Predation on Terrestrial Gastropods / Robert R. Jackson and Alberto Barrion
• Gastropod Predation in Spiders (Araneae) / Simon D. Pollard and Robert R. Jackson
• Mites (Acari) Parasitic and Predaceous on Terrestrial Gastropods / A. Fain
• Nematodes (Nematoda) Parasitic in Terrestrial Gastropods / Serge Morand, Michael J. Wilson and David M. Glen
• Ciliophoran (Ciliophora) Parasites of Terrestrial Gastropods / Jo G. Van As and Linda Basson
• Microsporidia (Microspora) Parasitic in Terrestrial Gastropods / Brian J. Selman and Andrew A. Jones
• Bacterial and Non-microbial Diseases in Terrestrial Gastropods / S.K. Raut.