Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-447) and index.
Contents:
Pt. 1. Scope of biological control -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Types of biological control, targets, and agents -- Pt. 2. Kinds of natural enemies -- 3. Parasitoid diversity and ecology -- 4. Predator diversity and ecology -- 5. Weed biocontrol agent diversity and ecology -- 6. Arthropod pathogen diversity and ecology -- Pt. 3. Invasions : why biological control is needed -- 7. The invasion crisis -- 8. Ways to suppress invasive species -- Pt. 4. Natural enemy introductions : theory and practice -- 9. Interaction webs as the conceptual framework for classical biological control -- 10. The role of population ecology and population models in biological control / by Joseph Elkinton -- 11. Classical biological control -- 12. Weed biological control -- Pt. 5. Tools for classical biological control -- 13. Foreign exploration -- 14. Climate matching -- 15. Molecular tools / by Richard Stouthamer -- Pt. 6. Safety -- 16. Non-target impacts of biological control agents -- 17. Predicting natural enemy host ranges -- 18. Avoiding indirect non-target impacts -- Pt. 7. Measuring natural enemy impacts on pests -- 19. Field colonization of natural enemies -- 20. Natural enemy evaluation -- Pt. 8. Conserving biological control agents in crops -- 21. Protecting natural enemies from pesticides -- 22. Enhancing crops as natural enemy environments -- Pt. 9. Biopesticides -- 23. Microbial pesticides : issues and concepts -- 24. Use of arthropod pathogens as pesticides -- Pt. 10. Augmentative biological control -- 25. Biological control in greenhouses -- 26. Augmentative release of natural enemies in outdoor crops -- Pt. 11. Other targets and new directions -- 27. Vertebrate pests -- 28. Expanding the biological control horizon : new purposes and new targets -- 29. Future directions.
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