Concepts in integrated pest management
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Concepts in integrated pest management
Upper Saddle River, c2003
Available at 3 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For courses in Pest Management.
This first edition text presents the basic principles of integrated pest management as they apply to plant pathogens, weeds, nematodes, mollusks, arthropods, and vertebrates. It reinforces the wisdom and soundness of the integrated pest management (IPM) approach to crop protection, which attempts to limit the deleterious effects of pests in ways that are environmentally, economically, and socially acceptable. A glossary and supplemental readings are offered to expand on the explanations and definitions provided in the book, which is illustrated with numerous photographs, line drawings, and graphs.
Table of Contents
1. Pest, People, and Integrated Pest Management.
2. Pests and Their Impacts.
3. Historical Development of Pest Management.
4. Ecosystems and Pest Organisms.
5. Comparative Biology of Pests.
6. Ecology of Interactions Between Categories of Pests.
7. Ecosystem Biodiversity and IPM.
8. Pest Management Decisions.
9. Introduction to Strategies and Tactics for IPM.
10. Pest Invasions and Legislative Prevention.
11. Pesticides.
12. Resistance, Resurgence, and Replacement.
13. Biological Control.
14. Behavioral Control.
15. Physical and Mechanical Tactics.
16. Cultural Management of Pests.
17. Host-Plant Resistance and Other Genetic Manipulations of Crops and Pests.
18. IPM Programs: Development and Implementation.
19. Societal and Environmental Limitations to IPM Tactics.
20. IPM in the Future.
Sources and References.
Pest Organisms.
Glossary.
Index.
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