Introduction to Insect Pest Management

Metcalf, Robert Lee (EDT); Luckmann, William Henry (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0471589578 / ISBN 13: 9780471589570

Verlag: Wiley-Interscience, 1994

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 33738

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Introduction to Insect Pest Management
• Verlag: Wiley-Interscience
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0471589578
• ISBN-13: 9780471589570
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 3. Auflage
• Zustand: As New

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Inhaltsangabe

Contributed papers by experts in the field detail how to put integrated pest management to work. Presents the philosophy and practice, ecological and economic background as well as strategies and techniques including not only the use of chemical pesticides but also biological, genetic and cultural methods to manage the harm done by insect pests. Covers such key crops as cotton, corn, apples and forage. This edition reports important advances of the last decade including an increased environmental and ecological awareness and a trend toward lower chemical pesticide use.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Robert Lee Metcalf was an American entomologist, environmental toxicologist, and insect chemical ecologist. Metcalf was noted for making environmentally safe pest control achievable.

William H. Luckmann is the editor of Introduction to Insect Pest Management, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.