Biological Control: Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management - Hardcover

 
9781032109275: Biological Control: Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1032109270 ISBN 13: 9781032109275
Verlag: CRC Press, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

This is the first book to bring together a comprehensive account of global activities in biological control, providing a global overview of biological control programs and bringing together information from introduction biological control, conservation biological control, and augmentative biological control (including commercial use). Arthropod and pathogen natural enemies are treated, as well as challenges to discovering and developing new agents, modern approaches to assessing new agents for introduction/commercial production, socioeconomic aspects of biological control, successes by region and future prospects.

This book provides a record of the types of organisms and main strategies used in biological control, key challenges confronting biological control in the 21st century, the main socioeconomic challenges that need to be addressed, biological control efforts around the globe and highlights important successes and failures, suggestions to move biological control forward in a changing world. Contributors are dedicated scientists and practitioners from around the world, together providing a global statement on the status of biological control.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dr Peter G. Mason is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Ottawa, Canada. The focus of his research is invasive alien species and importation biological control, with particular emphasis on host-range assessment and non-target impacts of parasitoids. He has served on the North American Plant Protection Organization Biological Expert Group and the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) Commission on Access and Benefit-Sharing. He is an Honorary Member of IOBC Global.

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Verlag
CRC Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1032109270
ISBN 13 
9781032109275
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
644
Herausgeber
Mason Peter
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