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Biological Control: Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management provides a historical summary of organisms and main strategies used in biological control, as well as the key challenges confronting biological control in the 21st century. Biological control has been implemented for millennia, initially practised by growers moving beneficial species from one local area to another. Today, biological control has evolved into a formal science that provides ecosystem services to protect the environment and the resources used by humanity. With contributions from dedicated scientists and practitioners from around the world, this comprehensive book highlights important successes, failures and challenges in biological control efforts. It advocates that biological control must be viewed as a global endeavour and provides suggestions to move practices forward in a changing world. Biological Control is an invaluable resource for conservation specialists, pest management practitioners and those who research invasive species, as well as students studying pest management science.

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Author:   Peter Mason
Publisher:   CSIRO Publishing
Imprint:   CSIRO Publishing
ISBN:  

9781486309344

ISBN 10:   1486309348
Pages:   544
Publication Date:   01 October 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction. HISTORY OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. 1 – The diversity of biological control agents. 2 – Conservation biological control. 3 – Importation biological control. 4 – Augmentative biological control. 5 – Unintended biological control. Biological control in the 21st century. 6 – Benefits and risks of biological control. 7 – Regulatory challenges for biological control. 8 – Access and benefit-sharing and biological control. 9 – Climate change and biological control. 10 – Taxonomy and biological control. SOCIOECONOMIC IMPACTS OF BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. 11 – Public perceptions of biological control. 12 – Economic impacts of biological control.13 – Uptake of biological control. BIOLOGICAL CONTROL SUCCESSES AND FAILURES. 14 – Biological control successes and failures – Oceania region. 15 – Biological control successes and failures – African region. 16 – Biological control successes and failures – Eurasian region. 17 – Biological control successes and failures – Indo-Pacific/Oriental region. 18 – Biological control successes and failures – North American region. 19 – Biological control successes and failures – Latin American region. FUTURE PROSPECTS FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL. 20 – Integrating pest management with biological control. 21 – Biological control as a conservation science. 22 – An evolutionary ecology synthesis for biological control. Index: Scientific names. Index: Common names. Index: Key words.

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Dr Peter G Mason is a Research Scientist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC). The focus of his research is invasive alien species and importation biological control, with particular emphasis on host–range assessment and non-target impacts of parasitoids. He has served on the North American Plant Protection Organization Biological Expert Group and the International Organization for Biological Control (IOBC) Commission on Access and Benefit-Sharing. He is an Honorary Member of IOBC Global.

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