Ecologically based integrated pest management /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Plants, Protection of.; Pests > Integrated control > Environmental aspects.; Plant Pests, (New March 2000); Biological Control.; Integrated Pest Management.; Pathogens, Parasites and Infectious Diseases (Wild Animals), (New March 2000); Animal Ecology.; Insects.; Animal ecology.; Biological control.; Chemical control.; Hosts.; Integrated control.; Integrated pest management.; Natural enemies.; Parasitoids.; Pest control.; Predator prey relationships.; Predators.; Predatory insects.; Prey.; Electronic books.
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This book, intended for all those involved in studying entomology, crop protection and pest management, has 18 review chapters on topics ranging from the ecological effects of chemical control practices to the ecology of predator-prey and parasitoid-host systems.

Table of Contents:

• Ecologically based integrated pest management : present concept and new solutions / Opender Koul and Gerrit W. Cuperus
• Ecologically based management of plant diseases / Barry J. Jacobson
• Ecological management of agricultural weeds / Robert G. Hartzler and Douglas D. Buhler
• Role of cover crops in the management of arthropod pests in orchards / Michael W. Smith and Phillip G. Mulder Jr.
• Intercropping for pest management : the ecological concept / Vibeke Langer, Julia Kinane and Michael Lyngkjær
• Ecological effects of chemical control practices : the environmental perspective / R.G. Luttrell
• Sociology in integrated pest management / Johann Baumgärtner, Achola O. Pala and Pasquale Trematerra
• Economic aspects of ecologically based pest management / George W. Norton
• Economics of host plant resistance in integrated pest management systems / Philip Kenkel
• Integrated pest management with the sterile insect technique / Donald B. Thomas
• Ecology of predator-prey and parasitoid-host systems : its role in integrated pest management / Geoff M. Gurr, Peter W. Price, Mauricio Urrutia, Mark Wade, Steve D. Wratten and Aaron T. Simmons
• Ecological considerations for the use of entomopathogens in integrated pest management / Leslie C. Lewis
• Role of biotechnological advances in shaping the future of integrated pest management / A.M. Shelton and R.R. Bellinder
• Grower perspectives on areawide wheat integrated pest management in the southern US Great Plains / Sean P. Keenan, Kristopher L. Giles, Norman C. Elliott, Tom A. Royer, David R. Porter, Paul A. Burgener and David A. Christian
• Integrated pest management of rice : ecological concepts / Gary C. Jahn, James A. Litsinger, Yolanda Chen and AlbertoT. Barrion
• Ecologically based integrated pest management in cotton / Dale W. Spurgeon
• Ecological implications for postharvest integrated pest management of grain and grain-based products / James F. Campbell and Frank Arthur
• Diffusion of IPM programmes in commercial agriculture : concepts and constraints / Thomas W. Fuchs.