Overview
- Alternative environmentally-more acceptable integrated pest management strategies for oilseed rape urgently needed
- Current major problem (pollen beetle resistance to pyrethroids) highlighted as a driver for need for alternative control methods.
- State-of-the-art reviews by world experts in their field.
- Considerable advance made since the last book on the subject in 2003
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
Oilseed rape is a major arable crop in both Europe and North America. It is attacked by unique complexes of insect pests still largely controlled through the application of chemical insecticides. Crop management systems for the future must combine sustainability with environmental acceptability to satisfy both social and economic demands. This book, in its 17 chapters each led by a world expert, reviews research progress towards developing integrated pest management systems for the crop that enhance conservation biocontrol. This approach is particularly timely because of the development in Europe of insecticide resistance in the pollen beetle, a major pest of the crop. The past decade has seen considerable progress in our knowledge of the parasitoids and predators that contribute to biocontrol, of their distribution patterns, and their behavioural ecology, both within and without the crop. There is potential for natural enemy conservation through modification of within-field crop husbandry practices, as well as, on the landscape scale, through habitat manipulation to encourage vegetational diversity. This book will prove invaluable as a text for researchers, university teachers, graduate scientists, extension workers and growers involved in integrated pest management.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Biocontrol-Based Integrated Management of Oilseed Rape Pests
Editors: Ingrid H. Williams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3983-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3982-8Published: 26 May 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9989-9Published: 07 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-3983-5Published: 16 June 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 461
Topics: Agriculture, Ecology, Plant Pathology, Invertebrates