Author : M.J.B. Vreysen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 758 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402060599
Insect pests are becoming a problem of ever-more biblical proportions. This new textbook collates a series of selected papers that attempt to address various fundamental components of area-wide insect pest control. Of special interest are the numerous papers on pilot and operational programs that pay special attention to practical problems encountered during program implementation. It’s a compilation of more than 60 papers authored by experts from more than 30 countries.
Author : Stephan Krall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783764354428
In the late eighties large-scale control operations were carried out to control a major desert locust upsurge in Africa. For the first time since the banning of organochlorine pesticides these operations relied mainly on non-persistent pesticides such as organophosphates and pyrethroids. The amount of pesticides sprayed and the area covered were probably the highest in the history of locust control and raised criticism with respect to efficacy, economic viability and environmental impact. As a consequence, applied research into the problem was intensified, both at the national and the international level, with the goal of finding new and environmentally sound approaches and solutions to locust and grasshopper control. Emphasis was laid on developing new control agents and techniques.
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain). Discussion Meeting
Publisher : Royal Society (GB)
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
A review of the problems of monitoring and control still posed by locusts, grasshoppers, moths and blackfly, in the light of progress made since the 1977 Royal Society Discussion Meeting on Strategy and Tactics of Control of Migrant Pests.
Author : Opender Koul
Publisher : CABI
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Pests
ISBN : 1845933737
Pest management has long been a problem for farmers worldwide and new techniques are continually being developed to reduce the adverse effects of pest populations. The use of areawide pest management has increased dramatically over the past decade and offers potential advantages to traditional and more localized approaches. Suppression over a broad area can reduce re-infestation of previously treated areas and the specific pest management techniques may be more effective when applied over larger areas. Providing the first comprehensive discussion of areawide pest management, this book will explore the theoretical development and implementation of techniques from a worldwide perspective. Areas covered include history and development, biological and ecological impacts and recent case studies of pest management programmes.
Author : Opender Koul
Publisher : CABI
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1845933729
This book aims (1) to lay out the historical underpinnings of the areawide pest (including weeds, plant and stored grain insect pests) management (AWPM) and to highlight current activity in the field; (2) to delve into concepts that have direct impact on the successful implementation of AWPM, which include: (i) biological and ecological concepts important for understanding the dynamics of populations in spatially heterogeneous environments; (ii) the critical role of inter-agency and multidisciplinary interactions in the development and implementation of AWPM programmes, which are often complex inter-agency and intergovernmental endeavours; (iii) the roles of modelling, meteorology and databases in AWPM programmes which, by their nature, are information intensive; and (iv) the importance of economic and sociological evaluation in successful AWPM implementation; and (3) to compile recent case examples of pest management programmes that have used the AWPM approach. A survey in presented on a wide variety of programmes developed for protecting agricultural and natural resource systems and which use a wide range of pest management tactics.
Author : Wijesiri Danthanarayana
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 10,39 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642711553
Author : V. Alistair Drake
Publisher : CABI
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Science
ISBN : 184593556X
This book (10 chapters) covers radar entomology and its application in the study and monitoring of insect flight and migration. Chapter 1 provides a general introduction to both radar and the biological phenomena that entomologists have studied with radars. An outline of alternative and complementary methods for studying insect movement and a brief historical account of developments in the field are included. Chapter 2 introduces the fundamentals of remote sensing and briefly summarizes some entomological applications of it that do not involve radio technology. The technique and theory underlying radar entomology are covered in chapters 3-8, whereas the principal biological findings that have resulted from the use of radar technology are discussed in chapters 9-14. This book is intended primarily for entomologists, although this publication may also be useful to behaviourists, ecologists, biometeorologists, radar ornithologists and radar meteorologists.
Author : Centre for Overseas Pest Research (Great Britain)
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 16,20 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Agricultural pests
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN : 1428924868
Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher :
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 20,88 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Pests
ISBN :
