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Biological Control : Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management / editor, Peter G. Mason.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pests--Biological control.
- Pests.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (645 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Clayton South, VIC : CSIRO Publishing, [2021]
- Summary:
- The key challenges, successes and failures of global biological control, and future directions.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
- 1 The diversity of biological control agents
- 2 Conservation biological control
- 3 Importation biological control
- 4 Augmentative biological control
- 5 Unintentional biological control
- BIOLOGICAL CONTROL IN THE 21ST CENTURY
- 6 Benefits and risks of biological control
- 7 Regulatory challenges for biological control
- 8 Access and benefit-sharing and biological control
- 9 Biological control and climate change
- 10 Taxonomy and biological control
- SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
- 11 Public perceptions of biological control
- 12 Economic impact of biological control
- 13 Uptake of biological control
- BIOLOGICAL CONTROL SUCCESSES AND FAILURES
- 14 Biological control successes and failures: Oceania region
- 15 Biological control successes and failures: African region
- 16 Biological control successes and failures: Eurasian region
- 17 Biological control successes and failures: Indo-Pacific/Oriental region
- 18 Biological control successes and failures: North American region
- Colour plates
- 19 Biological control successes and failures: Latin American region
- FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL
- 20 Integrating pest management with biological control
- 21 Biological control as a conservation science
- 22 An evolutionary ecology synthesis for biological control
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9781486309351
- 1486309356
- OCLC:
- 1273078075
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