Biological Control

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Global Impacts, Challenges and Future Directions of Pest Management

Edited by: Peter G Mason

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The key challenges, successes and failures of global biological control, and future directions.

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. + Full description

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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Sales in Australia and New Zealand only. Elsewhere, this title is available through CRC Press (external link).

Reviews

"If you are a student, or even a biocontrol practitioner, this would be an essential book to have on the shelf. This would be your go-to book. It covers everything – the theory and the practice."
Bernie Franzmann, Metamorphosis Australia Issue 102, December 2021

"This is an extremely professionally written and edited body of work which is obviously the product of countless hours of input from a wide range of contributors, which reads like a who’s who of biological control."
Royce H Holtkamp, Society for Insect Studies Inc. Circular 216 April 2022

Details

Hardback | October 2021 | $220.00
ISBN: 9781486309344 | 644 pages | 245 x 170 mm
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
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Features

Offers a historical summary of the organisms and main strategies used in biological control.
Outlines key challenges confronting biological control in the 21st century.
Describes the main socioeconomic challenges that need to be addressed.
Summarises biological control efforts around the globe and highlights important successes and failures.
Provides suggestions to best move biological control forward in a changing world.

Acknowledgements
List of contributors
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 – Unintentional 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 – Biological control and climate change
10 – Taxonomy and biological control

Socioeconomic impacts of biological control
11 – Public perceptions of biological control
12 – Economic impact 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
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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

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Authors

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.

Contributors:
Paul K. Abram, Hippolyte D. Affognon, Barbara I.P. Barratt, Vanda H.P. Bueno, Matt Buffington, Haley Catton, Malvika Chaudhary, Matthew J.W. Cock, Jana Collatz, Yelitza C. Colmenarez, Patrick Conant, Desmond E. Conlong, Brian Cooke, Kent M. Daane, Michael D. Day, Jian Duan, David J. Ensing, José Fernández-Triana, Florian M. Freimoser, Michael J. Furlong, Audrey Grez, Ann E. Hajek, Tim Haye, George E. Heimpel, Martin P. Hill, Hariet L. Hinz, Mark S. Hoddle, Kim A. Hoelmer, John T. Huber, Philip Ivey, Joe M. Kaser, Johannette N. Klapwijk, Markus Knapp, Ellen C. Lake, Bruno P. Le Ru, Miao Liu, Antoon J.M. Loomans, M. Gabriela Luna, Ibrahim Macharia, Peter G. Mason, Alec McClay, Jacob H. Miall, Soul-kifouly G. Midingoyi, Nicholas J. Mills, Carey R. Minteer, Chandra E. Moffat, Beatrice W. Muriithi, William A. Palmer, Quentin Paynter, Mohsen M. Ramadan, Luis A. Rodríguez-del-Bosque, Sugoto Roy, K. V. Sankaran, Urs Schaffner, Marion Seier, René F.H. Sforza, Annamalai Sivapragasam, David Smith, Richard Stouthamer, Lorraine W. Strathie, Antonet Svircev, Elijah J. Talamas, Hoa Dang Tran, Joop C. van Lenteren, Donald C. Weber, Arne B.R. Witt, Mark G. Wright, Kris A.G. Wyckhuys, Costas Zachariades, Myron P. Zalucki, Tania Zaviezo, Feng Zhang.