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Biological Control of Insect Pests in Plantation Forests / edited by Brett P. Hurley, Simon A. Lawson, Bernard Slippers

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025Publisher: Cham : Imprint: Springer, 2025Edition: 1st ed. 2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource(XV, 415 p. 61 illus., 44 illus. in color.)ISBN:
  • 9783031764950
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783031764943 | 9783031764967 | 9783031764974 | Erscheint auch als: 9783031764943 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031764967 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9783031764974 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 580 23
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-76495-0Online resources: Summary: 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.Summary: This book includes chapters focusing on the principles of biological control and influence of policy, ecology and diversity in establishing successful programs. Plantation forests have a crucial role to meet the fiber demands of a growing world population, especially considering the concerning decrease in the world’s total forest area. One of the greatest threats to the sustainability of plantation forestry is insect pests. Among the approaches that can be used to manage populations of insect pests, biological control is considered one of the most feasible and effective approaches to use in plantation forests. The authors review past and current major biological control programs in different plantation forest systems, including pine, eucalyptus and poplar, and including classical, conservation and augmentative approaches. Other chapters examine opportunities to use new technologies and integrated approaches and identify future challenges in the use of biological control.PPN: PPN: 1918984611Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SBL | ZDB-2-SXB
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