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Forest management and natural biocontrol of insect pests [PDF]
Forestry, 2016 Current silvicultural practices are under revision as result of changing demands and pressing environmental issues. We compared the monoculture clear-cut regime commonly used during the recent decades in Europe, especially in Fennoscandia, and in North America, with three alternative forest management methods, short rotation forestry, mixed forest ...
Klapwijk, Maartje +3 more
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Trees, Forests and People, 2020 The movement of invasive species is a global threat to ecosystems and economies. Scale insects (Hemiptera: Coccoidea) are particularly well-suited to avoid detection, invade new habitats, and escape control efforts. In countries that celebrate Christmas,
Adam G. Dale +2 more
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Revista Árvore, 2021 Hypothenemus hampei is the main coffee pest in the Amazon and worldwide. Although coffee cultivation exists in the State of Amazonas, there is no information regarding the behavior of this species population in this region of Brazil.
Juliana Formiga Botelho +3 more
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Recurrent and synchronous insect pest outbreaks in forests [PDF]
Theoretical Population Biology, 2012 A minimal model for the interactions of trees, insects, and their enemies suggests a simple formula for splitting all forests where insect outbreaks can occur into two categories: where outbreaks are periodic and endogenously generated and where outbreaks are triggered by exogenous factors and are, in general, recurrent but aperiodic. The formula is in
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Овощи России, 2022 The 28-spotted potato ladybird beetle is an endemicspecies of the Russian Far East. Nowadays the potato ladybird beetle is widespread across Primorsky and Khabarovsky kray, south Sakhalin, Kunashir Island, and in China, Japan, and India.
M. V. Ermak +2 more
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Combining phytochemicals and multitrophic interactions to control forest insect pests
Current Opinion in Insect Science, 2021 Forest pests can cause massive ecological and economic damage worldwide. Ecologically sound solutions to diminish forest insect pest impacts include the use of their natural enemies, such as predators and parasitoids, as well as entomopathogenic fungi, bacteria or viruses.
Fernandez-Conradi, Pilar +3 more
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iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2016 Hemlock woolly adelgid (Adelges tsugae Annand, HWA) is an introduced invasive forest pest in eastern North America. Herbivory by this insect results in mortality to eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis L.
Kantola T +5 more
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Acta Agriculturae Slovenica, 2023 The fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is an invasive and highly destructive insect pest that has caused extensive damage to maize in Africa since its first report on the continent in 2016.
Olusegun Adebayo OJUMOOLA +1 more
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Biodiversity of Insects in Some Areas of District Rawalakot, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (Pakistan)
Journal of Bioresource Management, 2018 The present study was designed to find species composition and diversity of insects existing at different trophic level of food chain in coniferous forest of Rawalakot valley. The study was conducted from November, 2016 to September, 2017. The researcher
Abu Ul Hassan Faiz +2 more
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Economic analysis of forest insect pests in Canada [PDF]
The Canadian Entomologist, 2015 AbstractCanada is host to a number of native and introduced forest insects that negatively affect the goods and services provided by forests. Some insects affect forests on a fairly predictable, ongoing basis, while others have impacts that are intermittent, difficult to predict, and sometimes catastrophic.
Kurt Niquidet, Jingwen Tang, Brian Peter
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