Ecological theory and integrated pest management practice
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Ecological theory and integrated pest management practice
(Environmental science and technology)
Wiley, c1986
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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents and develops ecological theory as a foundation for integrated pest management practices, with the aim of improving those practices. Unlike how-to books for dealing with a limited group of pests, this book presents the information and models a pest manager needs to work from to develop a strategy for controlling any group of pests. Focus is on the theoretical background of the major pest control tactics: host- plant resistance, biological control, microbial control, cultural control and chemical control. Also discussed are ecological concepts related to arthropod-borne plant diseases and their control, and a look at the economic dimension of agroecology, and comparisons and contrasts of natural and agricultural ecosystems.
Table of Contents
- Perspectives in Integrated Pest Management: From an Industrial to Ecological Model of Pest Management
- Island Biogeographic Theory and Integrated Pest Management
- Population Theory and Understanding Pest Outbreaks
- Trivial Movement and Foraging by Crop Colonizers
- Plant Defense Strategies and Host- Plant Resistance
- Plant Defense-Herbivore-Parasite Interactions and Biological Control
- Ecology of Insect-Pathogen Interactions and Some Possible Applications
- Plant-Plant-Pathogen-Insect Interactions
- Ecological Bases for Habitat Management and Pest Cultural Control
- The Ecology of Insecticides and the Chemical Control of Insects
- Agroecology and Economics
- Agroecosystems - Structure, Analysis and Modeling
- Index.
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