Conservation Biological Control
Editorial Reviews
D.W. Kitchen in CHOICE, April 1999
"This collection of papers by leading authorities in pest control and management takes the unique approach of using conservation biology as the central theme. The different sections are all well written and provide insights into the efforts to both conserve natural enemies and control pests through conservation biological control (e.g., strip-harvesting of alfalfa, etc.). The authors point out the value of this approach and the difficulties involved with its application under current agricultural and economic systems."
Review
"This collection of papers by leading authorities in pest control and management takes the unique approach of using conservation biology as the central theme. The different sections are all well written and provide insights into the efforts to both conserve natural enemies and control pests through conservation biological control (e.g., strip-harvesting of alfalfa, etc.). The authors point out the value of this approach and the difficulties involved with its application under current agricultural and economic systems."
--D.W. Kitchen in CHOICE (April 1999)
"The timeliness of Conservation Biological Control is striking. The suggested alternative approach to biological-based management of invasive species is exciting in its ecological justification and its sustainability. This book is an excellent introduction to the current state-of-the-art in the preservation, facilitation, and augmentation of native natural enemies as biological controls."
--Svata M. Louda in ECOLOGY (July 1999)
"...Barbosa has successfully co-ordinated an international group of authors to provide a comprehensive coverage of a wide selection of topics from the ecological basis of the subject, and its practical application, through to the constraints on uptake and the problems of compatibility with the economics of cropping systems. There is, however, a lot of interesting science in this book and this reviewer thinks that the content of many of the well referenced chapters will be of interest to ecologists as well as biological control specialists."
--BIOCONTROL NEWS AND INFORMATION
Conservation Biological Control
Conservation Biological Control (Neural Network Systems Techniques & Applications),Pedro A. Barbosa,Academic Press,0120781476,Agricultural ecology,Agricultural pests,Agriculture - Agronomy,Biological control,Biological pest control agents,Conservation Of Natural Resources (General),Environmental Conservation & Protection - General,Life Sciences - Ecology,Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Science,Science/Mathematics,Agricultural science,Pest control,Plant ecology,Science / Entomology
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