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Biological Control of Marine Pests
Ecology, 1996Biological control, as used in terrestrial systems, may hold promise for use against exotic marine species. We first review some marine pests, displaying their diversity, the damage they cause, and possible controls. We then contrast approaches for marine and terrestrial pest control, providing guidelines for adapting terrestrial controls to the marine
Armand M. Kuris, Kevin D. Lafferty
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Biological pest control by investing crops in pests
Population Ecology, 2012AbstractWe propose a biological pest control system that invests part of a crop in feeding a pest in a cage. The fed pest maintains a predator that attacks the pest in the target area (i.e., the area for storing or growing crops). The fed pest cannot leave the cage nor the target pest cannot enter the cage. The predator, however, can freely attack both
Natsuko I. Kondo, Hiroshi C. Ito
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Biological Control of Tea Pests
2001Tea, Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze is an economically important crop cultivated for leaf covering an area of 42.2 million ha in India. Tea plantation as monoculture is a permanent ecosystem which provides habitat continuity for 1031 species of arthropods and 82 species of nematodes as reported from different parts of the world (Chen and Chen, 1989).
K. C. Puzari +2 more
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Biological Control of Insect Pests
2013Natural enemies of insect pests play a key role in reducing the levels of pest populations below those causing economic injury. Both natural and applied biological control tactics can be important in successful management of pest populations. Biological control has the advantage of being self-perpetuating (once established), and it usually does not ...
Ajeet Kumar +3 more
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2021
Abstract This chapter focuses on the benefits of using biological control in cut flower production through augmentative biological control using invertebrate and microbial organisms (natural enemies and biopesticides) applied seasonally or prophylactically.
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Abstract This chapter focuses on the benefits of using biological control in cut flower production through augmentative biological control using invertebrate and microbial organisms (natural enemies and biopesticides) applied seasonally or prophylactically.
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Economics of biological control of pests
American Journal of Alternative Agriculture, 1988Biological pest control techniques usually have identifiable costs and constraints that they must overcome before they will be adopted by farmers. Many biological control agents are developed in the public sector and need economic assessments at an early stage.
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Biological and integrated pest control in floriculture.
2013International ...
Poncet, Christine +5 more
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Biological control in the management of pests
Agro-Ecosystems, 1975Abstract In this paper the author reviews the broad general picture of developments in biological control in relation to the increasing opportunities presented for its employment in developing programmes of integrated pest control worldwide. Included are not only the classical examples of biological control of insects and mites and of weeds but such ...
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A Theoretical Approach on Controlling Agricultural Pest by Biological Controls
Acta Biotheoretica, 2013In this paper we propose and analyze a prey-predator type dynamical system for pest control where prey population is treated as the pest. We consider two classes for the pest namely susceptible pest and infected pest and the predator population is the natural enemy of the pest. We also consider average delay for both the predation rate i.e.
Tapan Kumar Kar +2 more
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Biological control of cotton pests in China
Biological Control, 2014Cotton is one of the most economically important crops in China, while insect pest damage is the major restriction factor for cotton production. The strategy of integrated pest management (IPM), in which bio- logical control plays an important role, has been widely applied.
Steven E. Naranjo +2 more
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