Biodiversity and insect pests: key issues for sustainable management

Biodiversity offers great potential for managing insect pests. It provides resistance genes and anti-insect compounds; a huge range of predatory and parasitic natural enemies of pests; and community ecology-level effects operating atthe local and landscape scales to check pest build-up. This book brings together world leaders in theoretical, methodological and applied aspects to provide a comprehensive treatment of this fast-moving field.Chapter authors from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australasia and the Americas ensure a truly international scope. Topics range from scientific principles, innovative research methods, ecological economics and effective communication to farmers, as well as case studies of successful use of biodiversity-based pest management some of which extend over millions of hectares or are enshrined as government policy.Written tobe accessible to advanced undergraduates whilst also stimulating the seasonedresearcher, this work will help unlock the power of biodiversity to deliver sustainable insect pest management.Visit www.wiley.com/go/gurr/biodiversityto access the artwork from the book. INDICE: Preface, viiForeword, ixContributors, xINTRODUCTION, 11 Biodiversity and insect pests, 3Geoff M. Gurr, Steve D. Wratten and William E. SnyderFUNDAMENTALS, 212 The ecology of biodiversity–biocontrol relationships, 23William E. Snyder and Jason M. Tylianakis3 The role of generalist predators in terrestrial food webs: lessons for agricultural pest management, 41K.D. Welch,R.S. Pfannenstiel and J.D. Harwood4 Ecological economics of biodiversity use for pest management, 57Mark Gillespie and Steve D. Wratten5 Soil fertility, biodiversity and pest management, 72Miguel A. Altieri, Luigi Ponti and Clara I. Nicholls6 Plant biodiversity as a resource for natural products for insect pest management, 85Opender Koul7 The ecology and utility of local and landscape scale effects in pest management, 106Sagrario Gámez-Virués, Mattias Jonsson and Barbara EkbomMETHODS, 1218 Scale effects in biodiversity and biological control: methods and statistical analysis, 123Christoph Scherber, Blas Lavandero, Katrin M. Meyer, David Perovic, Ute Visser, Kerstin Wiegand and Teja Tscharntke9 Pick and mix: selecting flowering plants to meet the requirements of target biological control insects, 139Felix L. Wäckers and Paul C.J. van Rijn10 The molecular revolution: using polymerase chain reaction based methods to explore the role of predators in terrestrial food webs, 166William O.C. Symondson11 Employing chemical ecology to understand and exploit biodiversity for pest management, 185David G. James, Sofia Orre-Gordon, Olivia L. Reynolds (née Kvedaras) and Marja SimpsonAPPLICATION, 19712 Using decision theory and sociological tools to facilitate adoption of biodiversity-based pest management strategies, 199M.M. Escalada and K.L. Heong13 Ecological engineering strategies to manage insect pests in rice, 214Geoff M. Gurr, K.L. Heong, J.A. Cheng and J. Catindig14 China's 'Green Plant Protection' initiative: coordinated promotion of biodiversity-related technologies, 230Lu Zhongxian, Yang Yajun, Yang Puyun and Zhao Zhonghua15 Diversity and defence: plant–herbivore interactions at multiple scales and trophic levels, 241Finbarr G. Horgan16'Push–pull' revisited: the process of successful deployment of a chemical ecology based pest management tool, 259Zeyaur R. Khan, Charles A.O. Midega,Jimmy Pittchar, Toby J.A. Bruce and John A. Pickett17 Using native plant species to diversify agriculture, 276Douglas A. Landis, Mary M. Gardiner and Jean Tompkins18 Using biodiversity for pest suppression in urban landscapes, 293Paula M. Shrewsbury and Simon R. Leather19 Cover crops and related methods for enhancing agricultural biodiversity and conservation biocontrol: successful casestudies, 309P.G. Tillman, H.A. Smith and J.M. HollandSYNTHESIS, 32920 Conclusion: biodiversity as an asset rather than a burden, 331Geoff M. Gurr, William E. Snyder, Steve D. Wratten and Donna M.Y. ReadIndex, 340Colour plates fall between pages 84 and 85

• ISBN: 978-0-470-65686-0
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
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• Fecha Publicación: 04/05/2012
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