Biological Control of Insect Pests in Plantation Forests

Part I. General Principles.- 1. Biological control in plantation forests: trends and opportunities.- 2. A global perspective on biological control policies, including access and benefit sharing.- 3. Considerations for selecting natural enemies in classical biological control.- 4. Genetic diversity should be considered in biological control programmes in plantation forestry.- 5. Ecology and biological control.- 6. Dynamics of resource-consumer-predator interactions under changing levels of resource diversity.- 7. Rearing parasitoids for biological control programmes in plantation forests.- 8. Accidental introductions of natural enemies in plantation forests.- Part II. Case studies.- 9. Classical biological control of the Eucalypt longhorned beetles,  spp., in California.- 10. Classical biological control of defoliators in  plantations.- 11. Classical biological control of gall wasps in  plantations.- 12. Classical biological control of sap-suckers in  plantations.- 13. Classical biological control of bark and wood borers in plantations.- 14. Classical biological control of invasive sap-sucking insect pests in  plantations: an African perspective.- 15. Augmentative and conservation biological control of insect pests in plantation forests in Colombia.- 16. Augmentative biological control in plantation forests in China.- 17. Augmentative biological control in plantation forests: a case study from a forestry company in Brazil.

• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.02.2025
• Autor/Autorin: Brett P. Hurley
• Reihe: Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
• Format: E-Book
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• Verlag: SPRINGER
• Sprache: Englisch
• Umfang: 300 Seiten
• ISBN: 9783031764950
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