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Biological Control : Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management / editor, Peter G. Mason.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Mason, Peter G., editor.
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:
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Description based on print version record.
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781486309351
1486309356
OCLC:
1273078075

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