Conservation biological control /

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Imprint:San Diego : Academic Press, c1998.
Description:xxii, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3717265
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Other authors / contributors:Barbosa, Pedro, 1944-
ISBN:0120781476
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Conservation Biological Control: Past, Present, and Future
  • Conservation Biology: Lessons for Conserving Natural Enemies
  • Agroecosystems and Conservation Biological Control
  • Influence of Habitat: Underlying Ecological Interactions
  • The Influence of Plants on Insect Parasitoids: Implications to Conservation Biological Control
  • Influence of Plants on Invertebrate Predators: Implications to Conservation Biological Control
  • Ecological Considerations in the Conservation of Effective Parasitoid
  • Communities in Agricultural Systems
  • Influence of Habitat
  • Designing Strategies
  • Habitat Enhancement and Conservation of Natural Enemies of Insects
  • Sown Weed Strips: Artificial Ecological Compensation
  • Areas as an Important Tool in Conservation Biological Control
  • Habitat Manipulation and Natural Enemy Efficiency
  • Implications for the Control of Pests
  • Influence of Agronomic and Management
  • Considerations on Conservation Biological Control
  • Naturally Occurring Biological Controls in Genetically Engineered
  • Pesticides and Conservation of Natural Enemies in Pest Management
  • Conservation Biological Control of Mobile Pests
  • Problems and Prospects
  • Implementation of Conservation Biological Control
  • Nemotodes
  • A Conservation Approach to Using Entomopathogenic Nematodes in Turf and Landscapes
  • Insect Pathogens
  • Environmental Manipulation to Increase Levels of Microbial Control of Insects
  • Insects and Mites
  • Deployment of the Predacious Ants, and Their Conservation in Ecosystems
  • Conservation of Aphidophaga in Pecan Orchards
  • Conservation Biological Control of Spider Mites in Perennial Cropping Systems
  • Plant Pathogens
  • Conserving Epiphytic Microorganisms on Fruits and Vegetables for Biological Control
  • Biological Control of Soil-Borne Pathogens with Resident versus Introduced Antagonists
  • Should Diverging Approaches Become Strategic Convergence? Weeds
  • Conservation Strategies for the Biological Control of Weeds
  • Subject Index