Enhancing Biological Control: Habitat Management to Promote Natural Enemies of Agricultural Pests - Hardcover

Pickett, Charles H

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520213629 ISBN 13: 9780520213623

Publisher: University of California Press, 1998

Synopsis

Over the past ten years an increasing number of field entomologists and farmers have recognized that conservation of natural enemies is important to effective biological control in many agricultural systems. This collection addresses an important gap in the biological control literature by providing the first comprehensive summary of recent findings on habitat manipulation to control pests. Enhancing Biological Control includes contributions from experts around the world: the United States, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, People's Republic of China, and Switzerland. Chapters cover habitat modification in such areas as fields, orchards, or vineyards, and along or near the perimeters of fields, including hedges or other uncultivated areas. Generalist and specialist natural enemies are described in full, as are theoretical and practical issues. Experimental designs for studying enhancement come into play, and the editors include a modeling study that explores how the dispersal of natural enemies interacts with the positioning of refuges. This volume is an invaluable source of information to researchers, progressive farmers, and agricultural consultants.

About this title

About the Author

Charles H. Pickett is with the Biological Control Program, California Department of Food and Agriculture. Robert L. Bugg is with the Sustainable Agriculture and Research Program at the University of California, Davis.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520213629
• ISBN 13: 9780520213623
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 436