Biodiversity and Insect Pests
Key Issues for Sustainable Management
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Beschreibung
Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. Itprovides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge rangeof predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and communityecology-level effects operating at the local and landscape scalesto check pest build-up. This book brings together world leaders intheoretical, methodological and applied aspects to provide acomprehensive treatment of this fast-moving field.
Chapter authors from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and theAmericas ensure a truly international scope. Topics range fromscientific principles, innovative research methods, ecologicaleconomics and effective communication to farmers, as well as casestudies of successful use of biodiversity-based pest managementsome of which extend over millions of hectares or are enshrined asgovernment policy.
Written to be accessible to advanced undergraduates whilst alsostimulating the seasoned researcher, this work will help unlock thepower of biodiversity to deliver sustainable insect pestmanagement.
Visit www.wiley.com/go/gurr/biodiversity toaccess the artwork from the book.
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Geoff M. Gurr
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Agriculture Angewandte Ökologie Applied Ecology Biowissenschaften Entomologie Entomology Landwirtschaft Life Sciences Pests, Diseases & Weeds Schädlinge, Krankheiten u. Unkräuter
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"Suitable as a textbook for advanced students, the volumeperhaps has its greatest value as an enduring source of informationand ideas to practitioners and conservationists." (TheQuarterly Review of Biology, 1 June 2014)
"Biodiversity and Insect Pestsis well illustrated, withseveral colour plates. It has an excellent index and a companionwebsite, http://www.wiley.com/go/gurr/biodiversity, withdownloadable figures and tables. Although relativelyexpensive, and at times very technical, it is recommended as amust-read book for the agricultural community, researchers and thegeneral public." (Austral Ecology, 1 October2013)
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