Abstract
Until recently, conservation biological control has been the least well studied area of biological control (Ehler, 1998). During the 1990s, however, several important texts dealing with conservation biological control were published (Boatman, 1994; Barbosa, 1998; Pickett and Bugg, 1998). These suggest a growing level of international research. However, unlike classical biological control, where databases such as BIOCAT (Greathead and Greathead, 1992) exist with which to analyse levels of success, and inundative biological control, where sales figures provide at least a measure of uptake, the performance of conservation biological control has received little attention. This contribution will consider the factors that are relevant in this branch of biological control and, using recently published examples, consider the extent of success that has been achieved. We shall conclude by proposing how the future success of conservation biological control attempts may be maximised.
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Gurr, G.M., Wratten, S.D., Barbosa, P. (2000). Success in Conservation Biological Control of Arthropods. In: Gurr, G., Wratten, S. (eds) Biological Control: Measures of Success. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4014-0_4
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