Integrated pest management (IPM) : environmentally sound pest management / edited by Harsimran Kaur Gill and Gaurav Goyal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaur Gill, Harsimran, Editor.

Contributor:

Gill, Harsimran Kaur, editor.

Goyal, Gaurav, editor.

Library of Congress. Science, Technology, and Business Division. Science Reference Services, issuing body.

Series:

LC science tracer bullet ; TB 07-8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pests--Integrated control.

Pests.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Integrated Pest Management

Place of Publication:

IntechOpen 2016

Rijeka, Croatia : InTech, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is an update on environmentally sound pest management practices under the umbrella of integrated pest management (IPM). It consists of seven contributions from different authors providing information on pest management approaches as chemical alternatives. The book chapters detail about historical review of IPM concepts; strategies and some experiences in applications of IPM in Latin America; pest control in organic agricultural system; and the use of entomopathogenic and molluscoparasitic nematodes, insect pheromones, semiochemicals, detergents, and soaps as a part of IPM scheme. The goal of this book is to provide the most up-to-date review on information available around chemical alternatives in IPM. Therefore, this book will equip academia and industry with adequate basic concepts and applications of IPM as eco-friendly pest management option.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed on April 5, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (InTech, viewed October 17, 2022).

ISBN:

9789535154501

9535154508

9789535126133

953512613X

OCLC:

839459528