Use of Elemental Markers in the Study of Arthropod Movement and Trophic Interactions
Author : D. H. Akey
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Page : 87 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Animal marking
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Author : D. H. Akey
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Page : 87 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Animal marking
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Author : V.A. Dyck
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402040512
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly pest control method that fits into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book describes the principles and practice of SIT, frankly evaluating its strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures. SIT is useful against pests that have considerable impact on plant, animal and human health, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for SIT.
Author : Charles Hammond Pickett
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520213623
Over the past ten years an increasing number of field entomologists and farmers have recognized that conservation of natural enemies is important to effective biological control in many agricultural systems. This collection addresses an important gap in the biological control literature by providing the first comprehensive summary of recent findings on habitat manipulation to control pests. Enhancing Biological Control includes contributions from experts around the world: the United States, Finland, Germany, Great Britain, People's Republic of China, and Switzerland. Chapters cover habitat modification in such areas as fields, orchards, or vineyards, and along or near the perimeters of fields, including hedges or other uncultivated areas. Generalist and specialist natural enemies are described in full, as are theoretical and practical issues. Experimental designs for studying enhancement come into play, and the editors include a modeling study that explores how the dispersal of natural enemies interacts with the positioning of refuges. This volume is an invaluable source of information to researchers, progressive farmers, and agricultural consultants.
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Page : 906 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cotton
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Author : Victor A. Dyck
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1200 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000377768
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT — suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication — with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.
Author : Mark Alan Schmaedick
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Page : 670 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Paul Sheldon Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 1993
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Page : 804 pages
File Size : 45,52 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Entomology
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,5 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Entomology
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Agriculture
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