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Integrated Pest Management in a Predator-Prey System with Allee Effects

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A commonly used biocontrol strategy to control invasive pests with Allee effects consists of the deliberate introduction of natural enemies. To enhance the effectiveness of this strategy, several tactics of control of invasive species (e.g., mass-trapping, manual removal of individuals, and pesticide spraying) are combined so as to impair pest outbreaks. This combination of strategies to control pest species dynamics are usually named integrated pest management (IPM). In this work, we devise a predator-prey dynamical model in order to assess the influence of the intensity of chemical killing on the success of an IPM. The biological and mathematical framework presented in this study can also be analyzed in the light of species conservation and food web dynamics theory.

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The authors acknowledge the helpful comments and suggestions made by the referees on an earlier version of this work.

Lucas dos Anjos was supported by a fellowship from Programa de Capacitação Institucional (PCI) from Ministério de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI).

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Costa, M.I.S., dos Anjos, L. Integrated Pest Management in a Predator-Prey System with Allee Effects. Neotrop Entomol 44, 385–391 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13744-015-0297-2

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