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The recent entomological literature contains a spate of articles and volumes concerning the impact of biological control agents on nontarget species. These range from thoughtful (Louda et al. 1997) to provocative (Miller and Aplet 1993) to highly critical (Howarth et al. 1997). Taken together, they set the tone for a debate which is just beginning to attract the research funding necessary to generate data of sufficient quality and quantity to try to evaluate impacts.
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Messing, R.H. (2000). The Impact of Nontarget Concerns on the Practice of Biological Control. In: Follett, P.A., Duan, J.J. (eds) Nontarget Effects of Biological Control. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4577-4_4
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